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

Bernard Durkan: Here we go again.

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

Bernard Durkan: It is a well-known game. It is called politics. Let us deal with the matter in a different fashion. I have a comment to make and it is not personal in any way. In no way have I any acrimony towards any of the personalities involved at all. However, my long-time view is that the HSE is an inappropriate structure to deliver health services to the country at large. Comparisons have been...

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

Bernard Durkan: I refer again to the nature of the dispute between Quest Diagnostics and CervicalCheck. This is the dispute that had to be resolved.

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

Bernard Durkan: In the context of full disclosure or lack thereof, was the State Claims Agency consulted or involved at any time?

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

Bernard Durkan: Presumably, the State Claims Agency was not in favour of full disclosure? Is that correct?

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

Bernard Durkan: I am asking the question for somebody to contradict me.

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

Bernard Durkan: Like other members, I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee today and for remaining with us into the afternoon to acknowledge the seriousness of the issue and the manner in which it affects women's health, for whom it is a very serious issue. Some of them, unfortunately, have passed on and some are still with us. We should take this opportunity to wish them well. Given the...

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

Bernard Durkan: What about communications throughout the system to keep everybody informed of progress, lack of progress or stalled progress in a particular area?

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

Bernard Durkan: The point I was trying to emphasise is that we should not have a situation a couple of years hence where somebody could say that he or she was not informed.

Other Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which reforms throughout the public sector remain in place to ensure accountability, collective responsibility and good value for money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21675/18]

Other Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain the extent to which reform remains a central part of Government policy, with a view to achieving the points set out in the question.

Other Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: From what he has observed so far, can I ask the Minister about the success of the plan so far and the degree to which he expects to achieve continued results of a beneficial nature?

Other Questions: Public Sector Reform Review (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Having regard to the degree to which reform stood the country in good stead during the downturn of the economy, what is the degree to which it can now be ascertained that the continued reforms can be of assistance in different economic climate as they unfold?

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: A criminal law (sexual offences) Bill is promised and it proposes to provide for presumptive minimum sentences for repeat sexual offenders and to amend an anomaly with respect to penalties for incest. I ask the Tánaiste if and when this legislation will be brought before the House, given its importance.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget Targets (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which public expenditure trends remain in line with original budgetary projections; if corrective measures are required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21674/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Growth (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which pay demands in the public and private sectors are likely to impact on the growing economy to a negative or positive extent in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21924/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which public procurement and reform thereto continues to be part of Government policy with particular reference to the need to ensure maximum economic benefit whilst maintaining good procurement practice and indigenous resourcing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21921/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role he expects for reform throughout the public sector to impact on economic performance in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21922/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he is satisfied of being able to continue to meet the targets set in the context of spending and reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21923/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (17 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the degree to which each Department continues to maintain good practice in terms of expenditure in keeping with both the effects of the economic recession and the growing demands of the recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21925/18]