The Minister for Health says Vicky Phelan is right to keep the focus on improving cervical screening standards.
He was responding to comments by the campaigner who criticised the Taoiseach over the government’s handling of the Cervical Check scandal.
However, now concerns are being raised by the long waiting times for smear tests in the region which my next guest – Limerick gynecologist Beatrice Neufeldt – says will put the screening programme at risk:
