Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It was a matter of weeks. He stated that it would take two weeks or a similarly short period. I need to check the record in that regard. The big issue is that we still do not know the dates in question. If the HSE is incapable of giving a full matrix of the breakdown of these slides, it must be dysfunctional. This work should barely take a couple of hours, never mind a couple of years. There is a reason the information is being held back. The patient representatives on the CervicalCheck steering group have asked for it ad nauseam. It has been asked for in many ways and on many occasions. The most recent occasion on which they asked for it was in writing last December. What has been provided is tokenistic. It is trying to get us off the information trail. There is a reason that the full information is not being provided. It is totally unacceptable. My concern with regard to what is happening is being strengthened. There is no reason CervicalCheck cannot provide this information. It is quite basic information which the organisation has held for years. Why is it not providing it? If it cannot give us the information, there must be a reason for that which we are not being told, or else the organisation is completely and utterly dysfunctional. All it needs to do is include another couple of table lines in order to provide the information required. It has the information. All it needs to do is provide different bundles of the various labs and dates and what happened. It is quite simple, but CervicalCheck either cannot or is refusing to do it. The deeper question is why it is refusing to give patient representatives and the committee this information.