David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is just not acceptable. I wish to ask a final question on an unrelated issue. There was a report in The Irish Timestoday that the HSE has very serious concerns about amending the Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill. We know that the Minister has given a commitment that an amendment will come back on Report Stage to deal specifically with the CervicalCheck issue and there is an expectation that this will not be done by the end of the year. Can the CEO confirm that there is a concern within the HSE about ensuring that discordant slides related to screening is one of those notifiable incidents? We had a very lengthy exchange on Committee Stage with the Minister for Health. I accepted the complexities of the issue. I know that it is a complex issue but the Minister said that he was going to come back with an amendment that would reflect that. In the CEO's view will that happen notwithstanding whatever concerns exist? Can he explain what the concerns are? Is he confident that such an amendment will come to enable us to get this Bill through both Houses of the Oireachtas before year end?