Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have asked the HSE to draw up plans on how we can significantly increase the size of the facility in the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital. That hospital is carrying out about 10% of our tests today and there is no reason, particularly with the move to HPV testing, that it could not be doing an awful lot more, coupled with investment. I am told, however, and I am awaiting more details on this, which I will share with the Deputy when I have them, that even if this process was begun today, there is probably a two or three year lead-in time. I expect that within two or three years we could be doing an awful lot more here in our country.

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