Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the witnesses for those responses. The concern people have raised with me is exactly what Dr. McKenna has identified, namely, that if they are beyond the point of the very first testing where there is a lead-in time, a delay of six months should not make that much difference because it might be ten years before it develops and there is plenty of time for intervention and treatment. Could he speak about the potential clinical risk for women where abnormalities have been detected beyond where, ideally, they should be? Is there a risk? The question I am being asked is whether there is a risk if treatment is delayed for some women to the extent of a four, five or six-month wait.