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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Is it unusual for the Department to reject advice from somebody as professional as Dr. Flannelly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: There is one question Mr. McCallion did not answer. That is all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: On the supports available to women and their families, in his submission Mr. McCallion talks about a figure of 118 out of 125 slides. I asked him about the outstanding seven slides.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: My question was if the cases were subject to legal proceedings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: I thank Mr. McCallion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Are you deliberately delaying us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: There is one question I omitted to ask. The section of the report dealing with the progress report on interval cancer audits indicates that the expert group is looking at processes that should work in the future. Is it not the case that, after the Vicky Phelan case last April, the internal audit was shut down and that, since then, between 250 and 300 women who were excluded from the group...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: That review has been delayed repeatedly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: We are still talking about a cohort of women who were excluded from an audit and who are likely to have a screening history that should be examined. What is the answer to them? They are being excluded from a group that has access to a certain healthcare package which, in the case of Vicky Phelan in particular, is proving to be excellent. It is disgraceful that these women are being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: It has been paused for a whole year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: I contend that, in not having an audit in place that will sufficiently address their concerns about their screening history, the HSE is doing a big disservice to a cohort of women who are suffering. The only conclusion I can make from the failure to have such an audit in place is that the HSE does not want that figure to grow. If that is the case, it is another example of a lack of open...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: I understand that but, in its report, the HSE states it has established an independently chaired group made up of clinicians, patient representatives, public health professionals and representatives of medical bodies which has met four times to date. This was a whole year ago. Between 250 and 300 women have been diagnosed with cervical cancer since then. If I was one of them, I would feel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is still not acceptable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: The HSE cannot reinvent the wheel. The representatives keep making reference to other systems and other countries such as Australia. It should look at their models and adopt one of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: It should at least reopen the audit it had because it served some purpose.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: The lack of open disclosure was the flaw, not the audit itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: I want to correct the record. Dr. Scally said to me that we had no other choice but to renew the contracts. He still had many doubts about the quality of the performance of the labs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: It is because of the lack of audit, not because of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Lads, break it up will you.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (4 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: Go raibh maith agat. I hope the Leas-Cheann Comhairle feels better soon. He sounds like he is dying on his feet there.