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Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I wish to convey my condolences to the family of Tom Murphy. I pay tribute to Tom Murphy for his wonderful works and creativity. Rural Ireland, in particular, is much better off due to the life of Tom Murphy. I commend all the work he did to highlight the torture of emigration over the decades. He had an understanding of what it was like to tear families and communities apart....

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am not saying anything about the Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am taking ownership and saying I do not believe him.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The reason I find it incredibly hard to believe is that I have been looking at the documentation, which is about how to conceal this, dripping out the information and having the headlines and everything ready. There is also the language used. To think that it would not have escalated to the Minister is beyond credible. We have the documentation from some of the meetings - undoubtedly we do...

Seanad: European Court Decision: Motion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I second the motion put forward by my colleague, Senator Ó Donnghaile. Many issues could be discussed today as serious issues are happening in our country. We decided, however, as a Sinn Féin team in this House that justice for the hooded men was more important than anything else. That was because this is a very time-limited decision. A decision needs to be made today and it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: What disturbs me is that this has been presented as normal. It is normal because there is a failure rate and everybody should know so really the women should have known. I do not like that because it suggests it was the women's fault because they did not know that there would be a 30% failure rate. All of this stuff makes really interesting reading in the documentation provided so far....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: So every six weeks. When did the audit start? I know it was initiated in 2010. When did it actually start being done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Were there not any red flags in the audit from 2010 to 2016?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I only have five minutes so I really need to get to the bottom of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: So between 2010 and 2016, everything was hunky dory? There were no problems, nothing was being flagged and there was nothing of interest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I have gone through all of that. I am trying to find out about the five-year period between 2010 and 2016. Was there nothing there that caused concern?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: There was nothing there that caused concern to anybody at any point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I return to the meetings with the Minister. Who sets the framework for those meetings? Is there a regular agenda? How is it decided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: There would be nothing around flagging up anything that might be a critical incident or that might be of any concern to the Minister. Is Mr. Breslin saying that categorically? I find it absolutely incredible that, given all this paperwork and how things were escalating, including the number of cases escalating, at no point would anyone think it merited informing the Minister. Was the view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I cannot get my head around why the Secretary General would not have deemed it serious enough when he saw the escalation and the State Claims Agency was involved and so on. I cannot get my head around why no one would mention it to the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I was referring to the number of cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Mr. Breslin has cited that in August 2016 a total of 120 letters had been issued by that stage with no adverse reaction. Can Mr. Breslin explain to me what "no adverse reaction" means?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is that the same as the view taken in April 2016? At that stage the relevant document stated that as the volume of letters increased the risk of an individual reacting to the content, if and when shared, was a concern. Does Mr. Breslin mean by that women reacting to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Who wrote the briefing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: All of this seems to suggest the Department was waiting for the women to react but hoping that they would not react to it. Then, if they did react the Department had the headlines in mind. The approach suggests if the women were going to react or speak out then the Department had to be prepared. To me it seems like a defence mechanism. I take what Mr. Breslin says about confidence is the...