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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It will be two to four weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: How long has the HSE had the information on where the results were read?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Specifically on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: This is information with regard to laboratories. Nobody is looking for names. This is a question I have asked previously as have other Deputies. To be fair, whenever it is asked, the answer we get is that there will not be any bother with it but we never seem to be able to get it. Mr. McCallion has stated it will be two to four weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The HSE has had it for months and we will know in a month.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The challenge of recruiting staff was mentioned and we are aware there are issues in this regard. Will Mr. McCallion outline the steps that are being taken to repatriate the testing? We will not go back over it but we know it was a political decision to outsource it. I am very proud that I opposed it at the time, although I was not a politician. Other politicians did. I do not believe it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Surely it will also be contingent on being able to train the right people. Many courses were discontinued by virtue of the fact the Government took away the need for them. Mr. McCallion mentioned 2021 and a degree programme of four years. Are people in training at present? Have the numbers been ramped up? Has the HSE liaised with colleges? Is this work being done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It sounds lovely when Mr. McCallion says they are looking to extend it but are they doing anything practically? That aspiration is all very well but I did not support outsourcing at the time and nor do I now. I refer to much of what has happened, such as how tests have been carried out in other jurisdictions. There has been talk of mad stuff like retrospective accreditation and so on. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Finally in this round, I believe Ms Conroy spoke of extra money being provided. It might have been in Mr. McCallion's submission. What is the amount of extra money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: There was nothing in addition to the €5.8 million which was already announced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay, that was the additional money. That is fine. I thank Ms Conroy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank everyone for their patience. I appreciate this is a very long morning for the witnesses. To return to the issue of communication with Sharon, she raised a very serious issue, which we have all now accepted. Some did not accept that initially, but it turned out to be an incredibly serious issue. She was fobbed off with a standard response. I am certain she was not the only person...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That would be an important figure for us to know. When a serious issue like this is raised and people are being fobbed off - others can call it any word they like but that is the one I am choosing to use - women want to know how many emails it takes before they are taken seriously. How serious does the volume have to be? I fully appreciate that the Department would have been in receipt of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms Conroy and I have a very different view of it. I have one technical question involving the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, RCOG, review. I am neither a scientist nor a doctor but my understanding is that in order to be effective, a review of this nature should be done blind. Was the RCOG review a blind review and if not, why not? If it was a blind review, that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it international best practice for reviewers not to have any of that knowledge in advance of conducting the review? People have appeared before us to tell us about the potential for review bias and we are aware that this is an issue. In this case, would I be right in suggesting there is an increased chance of review bias in the RCOG review by virtue of the fact that while the reviewers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Is there a way of factoring that in, in order that the Department can get the best result from the review? Are the witnesses saying it is common practice for that knowledge to be with the reviewer in any event? Given where we are, let us differentiate between common practice and best practice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise if I missed this. My next question is for the representatives from INAB. I understand they do not like to use the term "retrospective accreditation" but I think we all know what I mean when I say it. There is no other circumstance in which what I am referring to as retrospective accreditation would be done. The witnesses will understand that it seems to stretch credibility...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I know. This question has already been asked. I am not sure whether this was answered 100%. Under normal circumstances, someone would get accreditation and start to do the work. These people were doing the work and accreditation was given afterwards. The best we can get is we see no reason why there would have been any problem because we do not necessarily believe that there was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That is good to know. It seems very generous to apply that lookback for whatever reason. I can fully understand they could be carrying out all the accreditation they like and then when they apply to the INAB for that accreditation only then does that process start and they get it from whenever they get it. However, in this instance effectively what Dr. Duff is saying is, "They did not have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Professionals (24 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if he will legislate for a Supreme Court judgment (details supplied) in the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019. [38283/19]