Lisa Chambers (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

How many women have received a notification asking them to take another smear test in the light of the fact that an original test was made unreadable or unreliable as a result of a delay arising because of the CervicalCheck scandal? The Minister made a political promise last May to extend free smear testing and it resulted in 84,000 additional and unscheduled smear tests being added to a system that was already overloaded. He might have been aware at the time that this would put additional pressure on the system and the political promise he made was not resourced.

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