Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The CervicalCheck tribunal Bill is one of only six Bills on the priority list and our intention is to have it in the House and enacted before the summer recess. I am told that setting up a tribunal of this nature, which is different from previous tribunals in the sense that it will have to assess liability and not just the level of compensation paid, is novel and it will be difficult to do, but I have said to both the Attorney General and the Minister for Health that I want them to prioritise this alongside Brexit legislation, so the timeline is for publication and enactment before the summer recess. It is essentially a six-month timeframe.

On the other matter, I am not privy to that information. I will tell the Minister for Health that the Deputy raised it today but now that the out-of-cycle smears are no longer being provided, as that programme ended towards the end of last year, we would anticipate that there will be an improvement in the time it takes to get results to women. I know a lot of women are concerned about the delay in getting the result of their smear test.

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