Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme

9:00 am

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. O'Brien will recall that I have been a critic of the structure of the HSE for a long time. I never agreed with it and I never will. I believe it is the wrong structure to deliver services here, although I am not asking anybody to comment on that at this stage. However, I am raising whether a different structure might have been more alert and responsive, whereby the alarm bells about what might have happened might have gone off at an earlier stage and generated a reaction to it. If the witness was to make recommendations, apart from the ones he just mentioned, relating to the structures of delivering the services to the population of this country, what would they be?

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