203 Deputy Seán Barrett asked the Minister for Health and Children the rationale behind the decision to outsource cervical screening services to a laboratory (details supplied) in view of the fact that Irish laboratories, whose staffs have provided this service for many years in the absence of a national screening programme, already meet international best practice criteria; if specialist graduates from the training programme established between the Irish cervical screening programme, the Academy of Medical Laboratory Sciences and DIT Kevin Street will be surplus to requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19283/08]

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203 Deputy Seán Barrett asked the Minister for Health and Children the rationale behind the decision to outsource cervical screening services to a laboratory (details supplied) in view of the fact that Irish laboratories, whose staffs have provided this service for many years in the absence of a national screening programme, already meet international best practice criteria; if specialist graduates from the training programme established between the Irish cervical screening programme, the Academy of Medical Laboratory Sciences and DIT Kevin Street will be surplus to requirements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19283/08]

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