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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chairman for letting me in and apologise for being late. I have two brief questions, one of which follows from Dr. Regan's remarks. I want to ask about the measures taken by the cervical cancer national cancer screening services quality assurance in cytopathology. Quality assurance site visits to laboratory providers is listed as one of the things that must be undertaken,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is including Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Each individual test would have an origin and we would know which had been tested in Medlab, Texas and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Therefore, among those 209 cases, it should be very easy to tell the Dáil or any particular Deputy where those tests originated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am not asking the names of individuals, only whether there were, say, 35 in America, 120 in Medlab. I am only asking for numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: In a recent parliamentary question, I was told that some had gone to Britain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: It should not require a scoping exercise to get an answer to this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Coombe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The answer to the latter question is there were two visits, one in 2011 and one in 2014. That was the answer that I was given. I am asking if two visits is sufficient in a ten year period.

Pay Inequality in the Public Service: Statements (24 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: My name is Bríd Smith.

Pay Inequality in the Public Service: Statements (24 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am not on the system.

Pay Inequality in the Public Service: Statements (24 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Am I taking Deputy Collins's place?

Pay Inequality in the Public Service: Statements (24 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I was here before you.

Pay Inequality in the Public Service: Statements (24 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: When I was thinking about this debate I thought about being outside the gates of the Dáil yesterday, where I was with 15 other Deputies and Senators. We conducted a publicity event on repealing the eighth amendment to highlight an aspect of how it impacts a certain cohort of women more than others. That cohort includes poorer women and women in direct provision. Most people would...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (24 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are facilities or schemes to financially aid pupils of minority faiths who are not within commuting distance of a non-Catholic secondary school to attend schools with boarding fees; and if so, the facility or grant available. [22949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (24 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 134. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 810 of 16 January 2018 and 990 of 17 April 2018, the reason no reply has issued from the HSE; and if the replies will be expedited. [22945/18]

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Having been there in 1983, I remember that the eighth amendment was seen very much as a line in the sand for the deeply conservative and darkly religious regime which had dominated this country since the foundation of the State. Since 1983, we have learned a great deal with the exposure of all of the scandals around the treatment of women and children in institutions like the Magdalen...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The justice and crime section of the programme for Government states that the Government "will continue to support ... the enhanced role of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) in providing independent oversight of complaints made against members of the Garda Síochána". I do not know if the Taoiseach watched "Prime Time" last night, which covered an...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: It was not an investigation.

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is a cover-up.