Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I support the Taoiseach's comments regarding the importance of population screening and the importance for women to participate in CervicalCheck. All of us who avail of the service are well aware of its absolute value.

Vicky’s ambition to bringing screening home can be achieved. It was a catastrophic error for the laboratory services not to be available and for screening not to be carried out in this jurisdiction. I want to put that on the record. Can the Taoiseach assure us that when the national laboratory opens - and he says he hopes this will happen by the end of the year - that it will not just be additional capacity but that we work for sufficient capacity that screening in its entirety can happen here in Ireland?

On open disclosure legislation, can we just confirm today that we will get this done by the end of the year, namely, before we rise for Christmas? Can the Dáil agree that we will get this done rather than speculating or giving speculative target deadlines? Can we agree that we will work together for that happening?

I asked the Taoiseach about the cancer audit review and its reinstatement. Will he say something on that matter?

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