Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

The former Minister, Deputy Noonan, established a pilot project in the mid-west, which was not the beginning of a national roll-out and much has been learned from that. I do not disagree with much of the Deputy's contribution. Cervical smear testing was introduced in Canada in the late 1960s while it was introduced in the UK in 1988.

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