Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Marie Culliton:

HPV testing is being trialled in some areas. The Coombe is doing some. Whether it can scale up to do them all is a different matter. Other laboratories are doing HPV testing but not on this particular medium. We would need to look at getting that in place. The quickest way to do it is probably to send some of our scientists to places where it is happening so they can learn from that. They can then bring that expertise home and set it up. We need a project that looks perhaps at going to tender or setting up in designated large centres-----