Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the National Cancer Screening Service has asked a company (details supplied) to subcontract a proportion of the cervical smears for which it is responsible to laboratories here; her views on this development in the context of the contracting of all smear analysis to that company based in the US; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39299/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The matter raised by the Deputy is the responsibility of the National Cancer Screening Service. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Chief Executive Officer of the Service to respond directly to the Deputy in relation to the matter raised.