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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: Dr. Scally never communicated that quality assurance was not part of his role to any of the patient representatives.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: I just want to be clear on that. Quality assurance and accreditation are two very distinct parts of the terms of reference. I have asked Dr. Scally the following question before and I have received a letter in response. The Minister read it out in the Dáil on Tuesday. I did not know he had been sent it because, according to my copy of it, it had not been cc'd to him. I still do not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: How did Dr. Scally find out about it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: Dr. Scally visited it in January.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: The HSE did not tell Dr. Scally about the lack of accreditation, he found out himself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: I have read the report. Dr. Scally does not need to repeat it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: I am not being rude but my time is restricted. I still do not understand how there is not one date on which Dr. Scally personally found out, by being told by someone or from his own research, that the laboratory was not accredited. To be honest, it just does not make sense. There has to be a date on which he found out it was not accredited. I want to confirm this. He did not find out...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: The Vice Chairman has been very helpful. Dr. Scally said it should have been listed on the schedule of accreditation. Instead of asking when Dr. Scally found out that it did not have accreditation, when did he find out that it should have been on the schedule and that it was not? There has to be a date for everything.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: I asked Dr. Scally the same question when the report came out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is not credible to me that there is not a date. There has to be a date.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: Dr. Scally might reflect on it. When it came to quality assurance and accreditation, we understand that he would have investigated the laboratories, unlike the case when he went to MedLab in January, took its word and subsequently went through the process that he outlined, which is confusing to the public. I am concerned about the chronology of what happened. I believe what the Minister...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: Dr. Scally said to me that he did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: The HSE did not inform Dr. Scally that the laboratory was not accredited.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: The witnesses might provide a schedule of dates.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: I have asked the Department a number of times but I do not think it wanted to provide it until the witnesses were finished here today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: Seven of the 16 laboratories were not visited.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: I said earlier that, for purposes of quality assurance, the women wanted them to be investigated. Is it correct that that was not possible with seven of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: There were 16 laboratories and the witnesses have provided us with a schedule. Seven were not visited so they could not have been thoroughly investigated. Quality assurance and accreditation are two totally different things. Quality assurance needs investigation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: I accept that but some still exist.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)
Alan Kelly: The schedule will show all of that, to be fair to Dr. Scally. My last question relates to INAB. I believe that the committee should bring in INAB and the relevant people from the HSE at some point to fill in the jigsaw. It is under the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, but that should not be an issue. All of us, including committee members and the witnesses, have an issue...