Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We want to provide safe units for all women. Some 15,000 mammograms are done each year. Two consultants read mammograms in the medical world of this country, Northern Ireland, Britain and, I understand, elsewhere only where numbers are below 500. It is not the practice in the medical world that mammograms are read by two people except where there are very low numbers. That is the position where a cancer is identified. Triple assessment only applies where cancer is identified and, because cancer was not identified in these cases that issue does not arise.

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