James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that she or the Health Service Executive has recently entered into five year leasing agreements for upgrading and supply of two imager machines for reading cervical smear tests for St. James's-Coombe Hospitals and Rotunda-Beaumont at a cost of €1 million per machine totalling €2 million; the use these machines will be put to over the next five years taking into account her plans to outsource all cervical smear tests to an American company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20642/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The specific questions raised by the Deputy in relation to equipment for cervical smear testing relate to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the HSE under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this regard.