Dr. Colm Henry:

I am trying to answer the Deputy's question. Not only do we need to learn from what happened but we need to design an audit that is fit for purpose for all three cancer screening programmes. In doing so, we have to map out best international practice. We need to go back to where this all began. It involves working back from interval cancers, how we audit interval cancers and how we then determine the way that relates to the original screening result. That is a core part of the work. We have put together a group. I hope we will announce in the coming week or two the appointment as chairperson of an eminent person who has been involved in the world of oncology for some years. The group will look at all three cancer screening programmes and decide a best practice audit for them. The idea is that we operate not simply in reaction to this problem and not only by learning from it because without audit, there is no learning or no improvement. That is an important point.