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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: In how many locations is that machine?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: In the hospitals and the community?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Is that just for hepatitis C?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Could the machines be used for other liver tests?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. I noted on the charts supplied that the numbers of males presenting is now much higher than females. How is that ratio working out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am looking at it now. Perhaps Ms Tait could state the figures for the record. The ratio seems to be nearly 3:1.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am looking at a chart but perhaps Ms Tait could send the figures to us in numerical form. It also looks as if the number of females presenting is declining, while the number of males has been reasonably static over the past five years.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: On page six of the report there is some information on the different groups that presented. It states that other reported risk factors include tattooing or body piercing and there were nine people who contracted hepatitis C in that way.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: It appears that nine people got it through tattooing or body piercing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: There was a debate in the Oireachtas on this recently. In his opening statement, Mr. Breslin said that in the years since these infections were discovered, a wide range of actions were taken, based on the recommendations of the Finlay and Lindsay tribunals, to ensure the safety of the blood supply. That encapsulates the problem. A problem arises and it is examined to make sure it does not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: How many reports has HIQA done? The Minister has commissioned a report into a hospital. HIQA does not inspect hospitals on a daily basis.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: If it did, it would probably close them all.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: It can inspect on a thematic basis.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: Okay. We will conclude shortly. Mr. Breslin gets the point I am making. I am not just talking about things that have happened while I have been Chairman of this committee. I was a member of the committee in the previous Dáil as well. The feeling I got from the HSE at that time was that when these matters go to the SCA, they are dealt with by the agency. The demarcation line is a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: We do not have a sense of that yet at this committee. That is all I am saying.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I read that the figure is 25% in parts of the United States. I would like to make a final comment. Mr. Breslin will understand why I am saying this. As Deputy Connolly said, even though this is substantially an historic matter, one of the specific reasons we are here today is the case of the late Brigid McCole. It was just a few weeks ago that we spoke about the case of Emma Mhic...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank the witnesses from the Department of Health and the HSE for all the materials they have provided. We look forward to receiving the documentation to which we referred during the meeting. I thank the staff of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. The next public meeting of the committee will take place on Thursday, 29 November, when we will meet officials from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (22 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48707/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: I raise with the Taoiseach the housing crisis, specifically promised legislation relating to approved housing bodies. Perhaps the Taoiseach will take a moment to check the record. He may have misled the Dáil a little while ago when answering a question from Deputy Micheál Martin on social housing. The Taoiseach said 8,000 social houses were to be delivered this year, half of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2018)

Seán Fleming: As the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government knows, the target for all local authorities this year is to build 2,400 houses. That is what the Department has said. There is promised legislation on statutory regulation of approved housing bodies. These are a key component to delivery on the housing crisis. Since there is no statutory regulation in this area, the Minister...