Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion

In dealing with some of these issues it has clearly been established that there was negligence in the way slides were read. The laboratories will also put forward the view that they are within the international norm, in that there is not a 100% capacity to get every screening result correct. Is that now raising a problem where the laboratories are looking for the Department to give further undertakings on this matter, or are we still able to deal with the issue in the same way as we were two years ago?