I have held discussions with the BreastCheck organisation about rolling out the screening programme. In the context of those discussions we extrapolated figures showing that there are currently 45 undetected early cancers among the female population of north Tipperary aged beteen 50 and 64. The figure could possibly be higher because north Tipperary has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the mid-west region and nationally. The failure to extend the breast screening programme has implications on that scale for that area alone. At the moment, therefore, there are 45 women in north Tipperary who have breast cancer but are unaware of it. The only way they will find out is if they are screened for early cancer diagnosis by a programme like BreastCheck. Indeed, it is the only programme that could detect such early cancers.