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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (1 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses in each community hospital in each of the years 2007 to 2017, by hospital in tabular form. [18873/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: There are commitments in the programme for Government to legislate for a duty of candour as well as to conduct business in a transparent way. In that vein, I ask the Taoiseach to give a commitment to the House that all relevant documentation relating to CervicalCheck will be published on the Department of Health's website in advance of any inquiry, because once an inquiry begins, it may be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Paragraph 4.1 of the HSE statement advises that "clinical directors have put in place monitoring arrangements appropriate to the circumstances of the practice of post-2008 consultants not in the relevant specialist division". How are the monitoring arrangements in place for reading radiology results? Does one person read the information and another read the same film? It strikes me as odd...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That applies where people are actually being replaced but the unfortunate thing is that they are not in many instances.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: As a follow on from the last question, it might be advisable to get that information out to GPs as soon as possible because the women who cannot get through to the helpline are trying to get through to their GPs and they are being advised that the GPs have absolutely no knowledge of what they should be doing. That is just by way of comment. My first question is for Mr. O'Brien. He stated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Gleeson might just name them or the grade they were at, if he does not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: How many meetings took place before the circular was drafted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The people involved in drafting the circular.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It took a month or two for it to be drafted by senior people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Did nobody think at any stage to tell the director general? Maybe they did not think it was serious. Surely they must have known that it was serious.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: But nobody thought it was important to bring it to the director general's attention. With regard to the cases that have been identified, the 208 and rising, how many of them are beyond the statistical rate? My understanding of Vicky Phelan's case, and I am not a doctor, is it was not within the normal range of statistical error and, in fact, when they went to look back it was not that she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: What about lessons from 208 cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It is within the acceptable range.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Does Dr. McKenna think so or does he know so?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It would have been handy for the joint committee to have this important information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand we do not know the figures as yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That is unfortunate. I return to how this matter came about and how it came into the public domain. The memorandum sent to the Minister states: "The Department is in consultation with the HSE in regard to their preparation of a press statement on the matter." Presumably, this was before the bombshell hit Mr. O'Brien. The HSE was clearly involved and I would like to know which personnel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I thought it was snow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: To whom do the two individuals in question report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: They report solely to the screening service and are not part of the HSE's internal communications structure.