Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I thank Dr. McKenna for that. Let us say we could get these 80,000 tests done very quickly, which obviously we all want to happen. I have spoken to colposcopists and histopathologists around the country and they are saying, particularly the colposcopists, that they have enormous waiting lists. Dr. McKenna made the point that there are tens of thousands of women awaiting gynaecology outpatient appointments. If the pinch point is currently 80,000 samples waiting to be tested, and they begin to flow through in the next few weeks and months, and please God, they will, will we then be in another quandary wherein we do not have enough colposcopy and histopathology resources?