Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

From a public health point of view I am 100% supportive. My family uses the screening process and my neighbour has been saved by it. I need to figure out where to go with this. There are four cases with the State Claims Agency. We know of two cases, including the case of Melissa Hamilton and the other case that is now public. They date from June 2015 and June 2016. That is not long ago. We now have another issue with this letter, which dates from February 2018. The case involving the other person was earlier.

As a public representative I realise there are errors and there always will be errors but we need to figure out the scale. Moreover, we need to figure out whether there is something else. I am saying this in an even-handed way, to be fair. The question is whether there is a bigger issue or another process that we need to have examined.

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