622 Deputy Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical practices are defrauding the State by obliging patients to pay the registered postage required to send smear test samples to the National Cancer Screening Service (details supplied); if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that medical practices are delegating the actual procedure of taking the smear sample to persons within their practices who are not on the register of qualified smear takers with the CervicalCheck programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18929/11]

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622 Deputy Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical practices are defrauding the State by obliging patients to pay the registered postage required to send smear test samples to the National Cancer Screening Service (details supplied); if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that medical practices are delegating the actual procedure of taking the smear sample to persons within their practices who are not on the register of qualified smear takers with the CervicalCheck programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18929/11]

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