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

Keith Swanick: Do the witnesses have any update regarding my second question about the potential breach of data protection using PPS numbers?

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

Keith Swanick: The committee addressed that question when I was in the Seanad.

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

Keith Swanick: So Cervical screening was not discussed at that meeting?

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

Keith Swanick: I thank Deputy Durkan for allowing me to speak before him. Going back to the meeting of 26 November 2015, we heard Mr. Breslin's evidence. He is categorical in his opinion that there was no discussion about CervicalCheck at that meeting. Are the minutes of the meeting at his disposal?

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

Keith Swanick: This is two and a half years ago and, obviously, people forget things. It would be unusual not to take minutes of such a meeting, that is, a directorate meeting.

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

Keith Swanick: Could Mr. Breslin provide those notes to the committee?

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

Keith Swanick: This is very important.

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

Keith Swanick: We cannot be categorical, then, that this was not discussed at that meeting. We cannot say for sure.

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

Keith Swanick: Would the witnesses be able to-----

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

Keith Swanick: It is very important.

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

Keith Swanick: Great. I thank Mr. Connaghan. That is my first point. Will the HSE get back to me?

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

Keith Swanick: How long should that take?

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

Keith Swanick: Yes.

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

Keith Swanick: To move to my second point, we heard from the evidence earlier that the Department, the Secretary General, did not take legal advice. Is that correct?

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

Keith Swanick: Can the witnesses confirm or deny whether the HSE took legal advice at that time?

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

Keith Swanick: March 2016.

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

Keith Swanick: Who sought it?

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

Keith Swanick: Who provided that legal advice?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2018)

Keith Swanick: Today I had the privilege of launching "a connected island, an Ireland free from loneliness". I thank all those Oireachtas Members who contributed to this report. In total we received 310 submissions from North and South of the Border, from the elderly and the young, the rich and the poor and from all ethnicities. It truly shows how important this problem is and how it traverses all...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2018)

Keith Swanick: The Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, will be in the House this evening to discuss mental health issues and the provision of care in the south-east region. I ask that the Minister for Health be brought before us in the near future to discuss the inexcusable waiting lists for patients in the south-east. I have a letter that was sent to a woman in County Waterford. It is marked "urgent"...