Health Screening Programmes

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 28 July 2020

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Questions (892)

Louise O'Reilly

Question:

892. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing funding for CervicalCheck by 10%. [18067/20]

Written answers

Minister for Health

Government has committed to fully implementing the recommendations of Dr Scally’s Report of the Scoping Inquiry.

Full implementation represents a very broad programme of work incorporating improvements across the National Screening Service and wider health services, and funding to support this work was allocated in Budget 2020, together with funding to support the switch to HPV primary testing. 

The HSE has advised that based on the 2020 allocated funding for CervicalCheck programme the impact of a 10% increase in funding for the programmes would be €4.46m.