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

Stephen Donnelly: Sure. That is true. Sorry.

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

Stephen Donnelly: Could the Chair come back to me after Deputy O'Reilly?

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

Stephen Donnelly: I want to thank everybody. I know we are into our fifth or sixth hour here and I know the witnesses are dealing with this issue at the same time, so I want to thank them all for their time. It is appreciated. I refer specifically to the women being supported. The HSE data on Monday, indicated that about two in every five women looking for a return call had yet to receive one. Could the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (17 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commencement of negotiations for a new contract for general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21849/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months for treatment, respectively; and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients [21995/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent general practitioners per county; the number working with private lists and public lists, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22041/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to hospitals by each general practitioner; the number of visits to each general practitioner; the rate of referral per general practitioner to hospitals in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22042/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Data (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 483. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a time series analysis of congestion on the M50 junction 16 to 17 to M11 junction 14 to 15 for the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22039/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Data (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 484. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures used to analyse congestion on major roads in County Wicklow; the locations these measures are in place; when these measures were installed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22040/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I am sorry, but I missed the start of the meeting. Would it be okay to revert to me later?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I welcome the delegates and thank them for attending. The main concern for women throughout Ireland who have been and continue to be tested is the accuracy of the tests. There is a widespread belief the service offered by the US labs was not as good and potentially is not as good as the service offered in Ireland. That really is what women to whom I am talking want to know. Was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I understand that. I am asking two questions. What women want to know is not the process used by the professionals. I know it is important but that is not the question they are asking. They are asking experts like Dr. Regan, whom we can trust, whether there is any evidence that the screening they have been provided with is substandard. The HSE has said there is none. In fact, the HSE...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I am sorry to cut across, but in the interests of time-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I want to ask about that because this made the front page of one of the newspapers as evidence that the laboratories were not as good in the USA. I brought this directly to an expert.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: We do. Laboratory B is in the Coombe. The other two are the US laboratories.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: We know laboratory B is in the Coombe and we know the two US labs are laboratories A and C. I took the figure of abnormalities detected directly to an expert because it was on the front page of one of our national newspapers cited as evidence that the US laboratories were not as good. The expert said that was nonsense. He said laboratory B, which is in the Coombe, is showing a higher...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Can Ms Culliton say that again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Can I ask Mr. O'Mahony about that because he makes a very important point? We put this to both the HSE and the Department of Health and the impression from what they told us was they were not terribly impressed with the analysis. What they told us, which we did not have time to get into in more detail, was that the testing and the samples being used were non-comparable and that the 1.8% and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: On the issue of the 1.2% versus the 1.8%, because the Chief Medical Officer, who is the clinical director of the HSE, and various other people refute the comparison, does Mr. O'Mahony stand over that comparison?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. O'Mahony. Do I have time for one more question?