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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I do have it but I was told that it had not been published publicly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: What will happen for this woman? The community has had to raise funds. It is a poor working-class community but it has had to raise funds in order that she could have an audit done privately. She wanted to know what went wrong. She has now found out through a private audit. It is curious. I have a letter from the HSE. This woman gave me a copy. It says that the HSE will give her the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: It suggests the HSE was not sure about the laboratories that were carrying out the smear tests in the first place. What went wrong for her and for the women who have been paid vast sums of money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Is the Minister not curious as to what went wrong?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: The NHS says something else can go wrong and that something else seems to be missing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am not getting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: There have been many interruptions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am aware of that. I want the Minister to acknowledge that something else can go wrong. I read from the chapter-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: Women are going to court-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: -----because that "something else" is not being identified.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: That is not correct. If it was, laboratories would not be paying out millions of euro to women who had discordant results.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 59. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to recognise representative associations for members of the Defence Forces; his plans to allow such bodies to join a union (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53015/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: What are the Minister of State's plans to recognise representative associations for members of the Defence Forces and to allow Defence Force personnel to join their union and be recognised as part of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: The point that jumps out at me from the Minister of State's answer is that RACO and PDFORRA cannot affiliate to trade unions without the consent of the Minister. The question is why the Minister is not willing to consent. We need to tease that out because this has gone on for a very long time. In the meantime, the Defence Forces are haemorrhaging members and finding it very difficult to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry if the Minister of State took up my comment as suggesting he ignored the issue. I did not say that. I said he was not doing what he could do, which is to give consent for members of the Defence Forces to be part of a trade union and part of ICTU. There has been much talk about that issue. We have revisited it time and again and there have been meetings and discussions. It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the additional resources allocated to address low pay in the Defence Forces and the expected increases in pay across various grades in 2020. [53017/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 451. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 445 of 10 December 2019, the details of the English study referred to; the location in the study in which the figure of 20% discordance in relation to false negatives compared to high grade abnormalities in view of the fact the study suggests a discordance of 14.9%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53223/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the need for a women’s refuge in County Carlow will be examined in order to provide safe accommodation for women in emergency situations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53181/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: 753. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an apartment built in 1997, which complied with fire safety regulations at the time, is now obliged to upgrade its fire alarm systems in order to comply with 2013 regulations. [52916/19]