Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

To insert the following after “performance of their duties.”“— cease the policy of outsourcing and tendering for this programme;

— repatriate the screening programme to Ireland under the control of publicly funded not-for-profit laboratories;

— fund all costs necessary to retest any woman affected, and ensure that women whose general practitioner requests a gynaecological appointment are treated as urgent and not placed on a waiting list;

— provide the Dáil with all available facts, figures, results and information in relation to screening test results and detection rates across the different laboratories used by CervicalCheck for each year from 2008 to the present day, identifying the different laboratories where the testing was done and any pattern of differences between these laboratories for each of these years; and

— ensure that all those presiding over this substandard service, or failing to disclose these facts to affected women, whether in CervicalCheck, the Health Service Executive, the Department of Health, including the relevant health Ministers, be held fully accountable and responsible for these failings."

I wish to share time with Deputy Bríd Smith.

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