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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I just wanted to make sure that it was not being put back. I have three more questions. I have done some research and I am intrigued. When did the delay with the slides increase to 27 weeks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: It is a big spike because last week, according to the parliamentary question answered by the Minister on 5 February, it was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: -----22 weeks. That figure came down from 24, so we thought it was going to go from 24 to 22. I am looking at the trends rather than having a go at the fact that there is a spike. I thought that it was going to go to 24, then 22 and keep going down. Now, however, it has gone up from 22 to 27.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Is the delay going to keep increasing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate that this is an international process. My final question is one I have asked previously. It relates to a matter I have not got to the bottom of yet. The audit stopped on 1 January 2018. We all know about the issues that were part of the audit, etc. Examining this, all of the other variables have stayed the same. I am referring to the labs, etc. The audit has stopped.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate and welcome what was said earlier about the process by which there will be new auditing procedures and processes across the whole screening programme. Are we not at risk here because if all variables stay the same and auditing stops, does that not create a situation where the same issues that we are talking about here today and have been talking about for the past nine to ten...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I understand that if there is no audit, however, it is not a double-deck then, it is not picking up-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Of course, it is good to do an audit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: It is bigger than that now, in fairness. I get the non-disclosure bit. The Department is also not finding out basic facts about the quality of the programme and issues. There are other issues; it is not just about communications and non-disclosure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: There should be a continuous audit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I accept that and have no issue with that. I am 100% with Mr. Breslin in getting that right. Because there is no audit in place since 1 January, the essential question is whether that creates any risks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am finished.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Accountability (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his officials and civil servants across the public service are subject to circular 12/2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6427/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Meetings (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the dates, attendees and purposes of all meetings he or his special advisers had with a person (details supplied) in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [6519/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Correspondence (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 204. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish all correspondence between a person (details supplied) or his office or officials with the Minister, his special advisers, the Secretary General of his Department or the Secretary General's office in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date on 2019. [6520/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Children's Hospital (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all communications between his Department and the Department of Health regarding the national children’s hospital in 2017 and 2018 and to date in 2019 will be published. [6610/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 434. To ask the Minister for Health when a report (details supplied) on the review of genetics services here will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6630/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 435. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied), under its contract to provide cervical screening services to the HSE, outsources some of its work outside of the contract with the HSE to labs in the United States of America; if so, when he and a person were notified of same; the actions that have been taken as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6631/19]