CervicalCheck steering committee to be 'restarted' after meeting with health minister

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly leaving the Convention Centre Dublin during a Dail session.Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

The CervicalCheck steering committee set up to oversee changes to the screening programme is to be "restarted" and is to have its funding maintained.

The body has been beset with acrimony, including the decision by cervical cancer survivor Lorraine Walsh to resign as a patient advocate.