Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed)

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I really do not mean to. We need - I know we all will - to come at this in terms of what is in the best interest of women and men, everyone using the screening service. It is a debate for another day. Because the Deputy referenced it, I want to say that on the patient-requested look-back, the amendment we are bringing in, regardless of whether there is a discordance, mandatory open disclosure will apply. Tomorrow we will have a debate when we will hear his views, my views and the views of others as to whether the large-scale audits should be anonymised, which would be the only way any patient, man or woman, could be-----