Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Arising from the statement issued by the Irish Cancer Society, 25 trades unions, doctors and women's organisations on the unavailability of a national screening programme for cervical cancer, the Tánaiste will be concerned that up to 934,000 eligible women have had to pay for opportunistic screening. Will that area be covered under any of the four health Bills that are mentioned in the Government's legislative programme? It is a matter of concern and we lag far behind in a European context. It is important to women, and the Tánaiste will have an interest in seeing that a national screening programme is provided.

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