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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (29 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 348. To ask the Minister for Health the cost for the provision of an additional education officer for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23194/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (29 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost to provide a full medical card to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23195/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Data (29 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the confirmed arrival and departure times for commuter trains to and from Mullingar rail station, specifically the 17:05 and 19:05 from Connolly to Sligo over weekdays in the past two months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23719/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation Refurbishment (23 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the ongoing construction work on the upgrade of Mullingar courthouse; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22541/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (23 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional support in equipment and vehicles, in addition to extra Garda numbers, allocated to counties Longford and Westmeath in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22540/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (23 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of tax that would be due on the import of vehicles (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22788/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (23 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times the community sector high level forum or working group has met; if it has considered the issue of pensions for community employment scheme supervisors in recent months; if it has identified a pathway to an appropriate solution regarding pensions for supervisors; if there is a timeline in place for the review group...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Schemes (22 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his efforts to have a bank's (details supplied) split mortgages reclassified as performing loans by the single supervisory mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22035/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 385. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [22265/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (22 May 2018)

Peter Burke: 421. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed development of the new car park at a centre (details supplied); when the works will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22545/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: I thank the witnesses for attending. I will focus on the contract with the laboratories and my understanding of how that contract operates. Will Mr. Gleeson take me through the safeguards or risk procedures in place in the event that one of the laboratories is found not to be performing or limitations are found? How would the organisation identify that and how it would come to light?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: In any basic study of statistics, if something is being described as a false negative, it is an indication of a limitation in the test. If two or more false negatives are produced for one woman and it transpires that some of the slides are perverse in terms of either the rate of cells or the high-grade cells that were present or the woman had cancer at that time, would that not ring alarm...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: This is a very simple mathematical formula.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: I am asking for a brief outline of the statistics.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: This is a central point. We hear the term "false negatives" being thrown around but there is also incompetence, pure and simple, where a slide has not been read correctly. As Vicky Phelan stated yesterday, given that cancer was prevalent in one of her slides, one could conclude the slide was not even read. That is how concerned she was. How are we getting on top of the limitation in...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: We do not need an international expert to tell us that false negatives have arisen for a number of different women. The laws of probability would suggest the chances of this happening are negligible or zero. I cannot get my head around that.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: Just to clarify, we are exclusively relying upon these laboratories. At that time, we did not do any independent checking. Once the laboratories were accredited and quality assured, that was it from the HSE's point of view. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: I still find it difficult to reconcile in my own mind that we have individual women with a number of false negatives. If the slide is that perverse, and it was the second slide in Ms Phelan's case as was detailed, in terms of how high grade it was or even how the prevalence of cancer was missed, is Mr. Gleeson able to see a variation between the laboratories? Is he able to answer that...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: Mr. Gleeson has not seen anything that would suggest-----

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Peter Burke: In terms of the two-way exchange of information from CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Registry that was not present, was that not a fundamental basic thing one would think should happen, that they should be reconciled and anyone on the National Cancer Registry should immediately be reverted back to the CervicalCheck register to see whether they had a smear test?