Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Minister's last comment. I am sure the House agrees that all of the women deserve all of their documentation after five weeks. They also deserve all of the audit review findings. There is one solicitor who is representing many of the women. A total of 90% of the women he represents have not yet received their documentation. After five weeks they deserve it. I will lose confidence in the management structure in the HSE if management does not deal with the issues appropriately. It let the quality assurance director of the HSE to go on holiday during what was the biggest crisis in decades. There is also a conflict between what the State Claims Agency stated at the Committee of Public Accounts and what CervicalCheck stated about informing women, an issue to the bottom of which we will get this week. On top of that, we are aware that there is further bureaucracy in the provision of documentation to which the women in question are entitled. I understand the terms of reference for the Scally inquiry. I understand that by next week Dr. Scally is to make certain decisions on what he has found. If that does not happen, I will be shocked. Because the issue is live and because of the fact that the women in question are not being provided with documentation to which they are entitled by the HSE, I do not believe that for some decision making we can wait until the end of the process, if Dr. Scally does not do what we expect him to do by next week.

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