Dáil debates

Wednesday, 20 February 2019

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

 

12:10 pm

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

I acknowledge that the people who built and ran CervicalCheck for a period did a good job. I remember the time before CervicalCheck, when women would present much later with a much more advanced disease than they currently do, and how different it was from the UK at the time. CervicalCheck is a good programme. Those who built it, managed it and worked there for a long time did a good job, saved many lives and made sure that many women had interventions much earlier than would otherwise have been the case. They also made many mistakes, which Deputy Micheál Martin did not say. Among the mistakes they made were a botched audit-----

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