Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My Department will be covered by any inquiry or investigation and indeed will appear before the committee tomorrow. In fairness to the officials in the Department, we are again having a conversation in the context of information that is known now but was not known to them then, as far as I am informed. There is a reason we are having a statutory review and a statutory inquiry. It will answer some of the questions the Deputy has asked. I think we need to be very careful. If we are telling people that screening in Ireland is good, works and saves lives, all of which is true, we should not then cast doubt on the locations where smears are being read.

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