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

Ruth Coppinger: Yes, but I cannot judge and this is the only chance I have to ask questions. To be honest, that information should be at the top as the witnesses knew this issue had emerged in the press. The witness made some disparaging remarks about tests being done on the kitchen table. That is at odds with what Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith said. He is not an insignificant person as a former master of the...

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

Ruth Coppinger: To conclude on that, we asked earlier for the results from the private for-profit laboratories to compare them, for example, with the public laboratories. I cannot actually gauge what Mr. O'Brien is saying and whether it is true.

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

Ruth Coppinger: Does Mr. O'Brien not believe he should have had that information? Dr. Gibbons has been in the news for days, and we raised this in the Dáil last night.

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

Ruth Coppinger: Do the witnesses know the laboratory from which those 208 false negatives came?

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

Ruth Coppinger: The Chairman names people all the time.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (3 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if resources for a service (details supplied) for the provision of extra psychiatrists for the assessment of children with autism and ADHD will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19375/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital Administration (3 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if medical and surgical procedures legal here will be available at the national maternity hospital after the St. Vincent's company is established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19467/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital Administration (3 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had discussions with a group (details supplied) or other Roman Catholic bodies on the ethos of the national maternity hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19468/18]

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: This is a serious issue. Why is the Taoiseach joking?

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: At the weekend I met a woman; let us call her Anna. She had two smear tests, one in 2011 and one in 2015. Both came back as negative from Quest Diagnostics. A year later in April 2016, Anna was diagnosed with an 8 cm tumour. Thankfully today she is in remission, but the treatment means she cannot have children, which is a huge blow to her, a woman in her 30s, and her husband. We cannot...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Since this scandal broke, the dogs in the street have been asking how it is good medical practice to outsource cervical screening to a privatised lab 3,000 miles away in a different time zone. Have we not arrived at the truth with these figures, given it is paying its technicians a fraction of what professionals are paid here? A private, for-profit company like Quest would be known to cut...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to reduce the waiting times for outpatient rheumatology appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19744/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 284. To ask the Minister for Health if extra consultant paediatric rheumatology consultants will be appointed in order that the World Health Organization's guidelines of six for the population is met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19745/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors Administration (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on expanding the number of persons that can sign applications for the Supplementary Register of Electors in order to increase access to the register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19704/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if the resources for the administration of the Ocrelizumab drug to persons (details supplied) with multiple sclerosis will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20333/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a pity that we cannot ask questions of Mr. O'Brien. I was at the meeting of the committee last week and wished to pursue something he stated there. Perhaps one of the other representatives present can answer my query. Many people are talking about the plaque on the office wall at the HSE which is intended to send out a great message to the masses who work for it. As regards speaking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Maybe I will just finish on this. Quest Diagnostics diagnosed low-grade abnormalities at 4% in 2013, while the Coombe was finding 11.8% and Medlab was finding 10.7%. Now, how would that be explained? Is the same categorisation of lower-grade and higher-grade abnormalities used? I think this is important for people who have been diagnosed. The last question is this. Will the document...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Are money or legal issues involved if he has to go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: People are wondering that, though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: One probably takes a minute or something like that. There is no way 20 minutes are being spent on each of those.