Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----non-disclosure, the audit process and the overall screening programme. There are specific issues. I have spoken to Dr. Scally, a very impressive man who has done a huge report, a number of times and I have gone through the report and spoken with Vicky Phelan, Stephen Teap and Lorraine Walsh.

There is a need for the Committee of Public Accounts to look at specific areas that Dr. Scally has identified and aid the work of the health committee and the Oireachtas. Those areas include examining how the money has been spent, issues around screening and labs and process and procurement, and how tenders rolled over and were changed and contractually managed. The key finding of the Scally report was systemic failure. We all could have written the first page of that report before there was any report. There is a need to delve into organisational issues within the HSE. There is a component here which is definitely within the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts and separate from the health committee.

The HSE will be before the Committee of Public Accounts. Dr. Flannelly has offered to come in, and that must be acknowledged. The timing, order and manner in which this is done needs to be thought about. I agree with Deputy Cullinane that we need to put this into a pot and scope it out separately so that we maximise our work.