Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source
My point on the RCOG report is that approximately 100 colposcopy reviews were done as part of this process which is raising other issues which Dr. Henry might deal with. The Minister's commentary around the review is that it goes to confidence in screening, etc. I am not even going there; that is not my issue. I want to have as much confidence in this as possible, just like everyone else. However, that is not what this is about; this is about the individual women. The three people who brought this up say that they do not have confidence in the process. Let us consider what happened to Lorraine Walsh and Vicky Phelan. Out of 1,051 women, three files were mislabelled and two were those of Vicky Phelan and Lorraine Walsh. A person would win the Euromillions quicker than this. It is incredible that Lorraine Walsh received two reports 24 hours apart saying opposite things and we now know other women received concordant results, despite some of their data slides being unavailable.
No comments