Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 April 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Damien McCallion:
I will address the point on the backlog. I outlined earlier in response to previous questions that we have seen improvement in two of the laboratories. We are working with the third laboratory. We have identified the capacity and we are working to close that out over the coming weeks. That is the point at which we would communicate with people who are in the backlog first in terms of the suggested timeframe. The idea is to give people some level of assurance, if possible, around the delays.