David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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For me, CervicalCheck involves a simple test.

Whatever happens in the context of the Bill, one question will have to be answered. It is not about whether any woman requested information. In real time, when Vicky Phelan and all the other women had discordant slides, one of whom found that out by accident when she read her own records, that was part of an audit and that audit had not been anonymised. CervicalCheck and the women's clinicians were notified but the women were not. It strikes me that we are moving away from a different type of audit that was carried out then to an anonymised one. Our guests can talk about the logic of this. That is fine, but it is a departure and a new way of doing it. In those circumstances, if a discordant slide is made available, a woman will not be notified, and I have a problem with that. We will debate this tomorrow, but it is a fundamental point-----