Kathleen O'Meara (Labour)

On the subject of the roll-out of BreastCheck which I have raised here on a number of occasions, Senator Cox may not be aware that it takes 22 months to roll out the entire BreastCheck programme from beginning to end. The reason it is only starting now for the western area, which includes north Tipperary, is that the Government has not, until recently, given funding to the BreastCheck organisation to allow that happen. Women are dying because of the delay in providing funding for this extremely valuable and effective programme.