Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

That is why we need further information over the coming days. It is not enough for the Minister just to say he is setting up an inquiry.

Apart from the women who have been diagnosed with cancer, we are all very conscious of the thousands of women around the country who are very nervous about this and are beginning to question the validity of smear tests they have had. The Minister has given some assurance to people about services being available and retests. It was brought to my attention this evening that a person who made contact with CervicalCheck in order to arrange a rescreening of a smear received a message from the CervicalCheck website thanking her for her email and saying rescreening will be available and that it is currently assessing the impact of the Minister's announcement regarding rescreening for clients of the CervicalCheck programme. Further information on the implementation of this announcement will be provided in due course via the CervicalCheck website.

Would the Minister agree that response from CervicalCheck is completely unacceptable?

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