Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 323: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reconsider her stance in relation to the testing for B Strep infection of pregnant woman in view of the amount of women who are being told while in labour that they suffer from this infection and the risk this is putting them and their babies in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6779/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Formal screening for B streptococcus is not carried out at present but the issue is being kept under review.