Dáil debates

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements

 

5:40 pm

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Specifically on the clinical risk, it is good to hear, as we have heard previously, that it is exceedingly low. The Minister probably does not have the information now, but he might come back to us on the following. One of the cohorts involves women who have been diagnosed with more serious than low-grade abnormalities. There is an unknown number of women who have been diagnosed with high-grade abnormalities or more serious ones. The question for them is whether delays of four to seven months may be linked to delays in starting treatment. I do not know and am not asserting that they are. However, I am being asked the question by women who are waiting. I ask the Minister, therefore, to get the advice and to make a statement to the House or to the public personally or by way of a clarification from the HSE setting out whether there is any material risk to those women and how many women it might affect. As to the rest, I thank the Minister.

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