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

Rose Conway Walsh: I am going to ask one final question because it is relevant today. Let us suppose a person wants her file. Maybe this question is relevant to Mr. Connaghan as well. Let us suppose a woman wants her medical file today. How is she going to get it? How long is it going to take her? If a woman goes to her general practitioner and seeks a medical file from the consultant, how long will it...

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

Rose Conway Walsh: Let us suppose a person wants her medical file tomorrow. How long would it take for someone to get a medical file, not only from CervicalCheck but across the board?

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

Rose Conway Walsh: I know what is repeated in the briefing.

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

Rose Conway Walsh: I appreciate that. Thank you for letting me in, Chairman. People have great difficulty in getting access to their medical records. I call on Mr. Connaghan to address that within the system. When people ask for their medical records, they should get them in a timely way.

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

Rose Conway Walsh: If we take it that the audit was well under way in 2013 and that there is an average of eight scheduled meetings with the Minister for Health annually, there would have been around 32 scheduled meetings during that period, between 2013 and 2018. Is that the case?

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

Rose Conway Walsh: Therefore, there would have been around 32 meetings. It is utterly unbelievable there could have been 32 scheduled meetings with the Minister for Health while all of this going on and that it did not warrant the HSE mentioning it to him, whether on or off the record.

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

Rose Conway Walsh: Whose general view was it? In the first review in March it was stated everyone would be communicated with, that the women would be communicated with. Who made the decision not to communicate the information?

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

Rose Conway Walsh: One of the documents, the summary status report of March 2016, states the women would be communicated with.

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

Rose Conway Walsh: I just want to know who made the decision or reversed it. The decision was that the clinician be requested to discuss the outcome with the woman. Who made the decision to reverse it?

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

Rose Conway Walsh: In that case, why were the women not told?

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

Rose Conway Walsh: Therefore, the doctors were told to do so and it was the doctors who did not tell the women. Is that what Dr. O'Keeffe is saying?

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

Rose Conway Walsh: Therefore, what Dr. O'Keeffe is saying the doctors received the information and they decided not to give it to the women.

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

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes, I think we should see them. We need to know the nature of the discussions. I think we need to comparatively consider the things the Department discussed and the level of seriousness of the issues that were discussed, so that we can make up our own minds around this.

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

Rose Conway Walsh: I will not take more than a minute. It perturbs me to hear the witness say this should have been handled in a more calm, measured way when 18 women are dead and over 200 are affected by this. There are women fighting for their lives. I cannot apologise for there being anger about this. I beg Mr. Connaghan to address the protectionism and the power and control that exist within the HSE....

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

Rose Conway Walsh: We understand that. Why did the programme not say 30% in the leaflet? Why did it say that there is just a small chance? Why did the programme not instruct GPs to tell women when they were having their smears that there is a 30% chance that it might not be good and that if the women were having any symptoms they should disclose them? Why did the programme not make that a priority in its...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I apologise; I have to return to a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. I will go to the Balmoral show because it is very important to have an exchange. I am looking forward to speaking to all of the rich farmers in the North. Us poor farmers in the west do not have a lot. All of the good land is in the North. I am looking forward to...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I suggest that we ask the Minister to have a full discussion on water supplies, sewerage schemes and the attendant responsibilities relating to both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I note with interest what Mr. Burgess is saying. Does he agree that the banks have a social responsibility given that their debt was socialised, which caused the collapse of the whole economy? I think he is looking at non-performing loans and GDP-to-credit ratios is a narrow and abstract way. Do the private banks, followed by the vulture...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am concerned that reference is being made to a headline figure of 10,000 people who do not engage as a means of setting a narrative. I do not agree with what has been said about those who can afford to pay their mortgages. I pay my mortgage, but I understand that some people cannot afford to do so. I think they should be taken off the table. We are not talking about people who will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am worried that the 10,000 figure is being used to set a narrative in the absence of a solid basis for that figure. I am reminded of the way insurance companies attribute fault to people who have accidents and have to claim. I do not think that should be done. I can explain why we have the court cases and all of that. Mr. Burgess has told us to go to the courts. I have been to the...