The Taoiseach has directly intervened to ensure all women impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal receive a €2,000 ex-gratia payment.

Minister for Health Simon Harris has denied he displayed “a lack of empathy” with the women impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal who recently learned that they had received incorrect results.

Healthcare is not without flaws, but the system does its job. Ciarán Ó Riain calls for calm in the wake of the latest smear test review, which found that CervicalCheck works

The Government is to consider funding a further independent review for women involved in the CervicalCheck scandal after a key patient advocate expressed no confidence in the process.

A leading campaigner in the CervicalCheck scandal has quit a key oversight committee in frustration at how a review of women’s smear tests was conducted.

Today will be "another difficult day" for women who have been impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal, the Taoiseach has told the Dáil.

A State apology was necessary, but the mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and families caught up in the CervicalCheck scandal need to know that it will never happen again.

CervicalCheck campaigners have criticised the pace of change in the health service on the same day that a “watershed” State apology was delivered in the Dáil.

The Taoiseach is to apologise to all the women and their families who have been impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal in the Dáil next week.

The Scally Report into the CervicalCheck scandal revealed that more than 90,000 smears were being sent there without the knowledge or approval of CervicalCheck.

The CervicalCheck scandal was symbolic of a health system tottering towards something that looks like the edge of collapse. Accountability and transparency were in short supply.

Cervical Check campaigner Vicky Phelan says some people caught up in the scandal have not been able to go public with their experiences because they are in the throes of “nasty” divorces or separations.

The number of people in prison who are parents may be higher than initially estimated, according to preliminary data from the Irish Prison Service.

This includes payments to lawyers, a communications agency and doctors.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up.

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

A “huge communications failure” is how the latest CervicalCheck scandal, which left thousands of women in the dark for months about their test results, is described in a damning report.

A review of the latest CervicalCheck scandal has found more than 4,000 women were not given their smear test results due to an IT glitch.

A request from CervicalCheck patient representatives for the establishment of a paid patient advocacy programme has not received any “meaningful” response from the Department of Health four months after the appeal was made.

The leader of Aontú has accused the Health Minister of using appalling language in relation to the Cervical Check scandal last week.

The HSE was still working last night to establish if all 52 women who tested positive for a virus that increases the risk of cancer have been made aware of their results.

The Chairperson of the CervicalCheck rapid review has said he has started investigating the latest CervicalCheck scandal.

Women involved in the latest CervicalCheck scandal are losing faith in the system and want answers, that’s according to ‘Sharon’, the woman who revealed the most recent problem with communications within the service.

A key member of a committee set up to drive change in the national cervical cancer screening programme is considering quitting because she no longer has faith in it.

The benign, wear-the-green-jersey view of our health system is that it provides wonderful services despite limitations that could easily be resolved if more resources were made available.

Deputy Smith says outsourcing to US labs isn't working even though she's in favour of screening:

The HSE has known since February of an IT glitch that led to delayed smear test results for 800 women — but mistakenly believed that the laboratory processing the tests was communicating the results manually.

Thank goodness, that is all done. A year to forget.

A year ago, Leo Varadkar held all the aces.

A tribunal to deal with CervicalCheck claims will not begin hearing cases until the Supreme Court rules on a High Court judgment involving a woman terminally ill with cervical cancer.

A support group for victims of the CervicalCheck scandal is welcoming the decision by Cabinet to approve a bill allowing a tribunal to be set up for affected women.

The Cabinet signed off on the ex-gratia payments this evening.

The Taoiseach has admitted he was wrong to promise that no woman affected by the CervicalCheck scandal would have to go to court.

A tribunal to hear and determine claims from women and families impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal is to get Government sign-off today.

A partial appeal by the State Claims Agency (SCA) of a High Court judgment that found in favour of a woman terminally ill with cervical cancer will not include an appeal of the €2.16m in damages awarded to her.

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he is "very happy" to offer a full apology to women affected by the CervicalCheck.scandal.

The Taoiseach has said he is open to establishing a no-fault compensation scheme for the women impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal.

The man tasked with examining the failings of CervicalCheck has criticised the current system for responding to errors in screening as “inadequate”.

The women and families impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal say they are still awaiting an apology from the State a year after the scandal broke.

The interim head of screening at the National Screening Service has written to women caught up in the CervicalCheck scandal outlining what they can expect if they sign up to an ex gratia scheme — but patient representatives said the main reaction was one of disappointment.

Sinn Féin says the Health Minister needs to apologise over the latest outpatient waiting list figures.

"You have to have that positive mind frame because, if you don't, you'll give up and you're going to let it win, and by God, I'm not going to let it win."

Victims of the CervicalCheck scandal are pleading for other women to be spared the ordeal that a terminally-ill cancer patient was put through, to win her landmark compensation case.