Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

Mr. Damien McCallion:

I will deal with that, given that I replied on it to Deputies Kelly and O'Reilly earlier. There is a breakdown of the 221 women in the original audit and with the patients we have worked through some additional, broader information they wish to see.

We have spoken to the patient representatives on that, and effectively we are committing to complete it within the next two to four weeks. If, as Deputy Kelly has said, the patient representatives have already had sight of this, and if they would wish to release part of the information earlier, then we would have no issue with that. We are working with the patient group to do that. We have the information.