Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion

Fair enough. On the numbers, they went from 280,000 in 2017 up to 370,000 in 2018. Do we have any idea as to what it will level off at in 2019? The witness has given the figures for 2017. I presume the figures for 2016 and 2015 were still approximately 280,000. Do we have the capacity now, in view of the approximately 80,000 that have to be reviewed, to deal with those? If the figure levels out at 280,000 again this year, do we have the capacity now to deal with both issues at the same time?