I want to discuss briefly the implications for people in areas where breast cancer screening services are not available. Last autumn, it emerged that the mammography unit at Nenagh General Hospital in north Tipperary was not being replaced by the Mid-Western Health Board, although this news did not come as a big surprise. There had been a breast and smear clinic in the hospital which was staffed entirely by female nurses. It was a popular local clinic run on an out-patient basis and it had a high reputation in the community.