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Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Page 67 of the programme for Government refers to health and ensuring support in a crisis. When he answered Deputy Micheál Martin earlier, the Taoiseach alluded to the fact that the people who failed to escalate the matter to do with cervical screening did so on the basis that they assumed others were dealing with it. On that basis, will the Taoiseach outline for us whether any...

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: As we have learned, the HSE's 300-page guidance document on the open disclosure policy is honoured more in the breach than in the observance. It is clear that open disclosure is a selective policy that is applied when it suits and abandoned when it does not suit. I want to say a couple of things. The five principles of care of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists were the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (15 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance further to information provided (details supplied), if he will provide minutes of meetings to consider reports among he and his officials and minutes of meetings between officials of his Department and other Departments and agencies including the State Claims Agency; if the reports provided on a quarterly basis made reference to cases relating to the...

Topical Issue Debate: Occupational Therapy Staff (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Doyle, to the House. It is not his fault. This is a matter specifically to do with health. It is good to have the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility for food, forestry and horticulture here to give the response but it does not inspire confidence in the level of prioritisation we are giving to...

Topical Issue Debate: Occupational Therapy Staff (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I know it is not the Minister of State's brief which is why I would love to be getting stuck in to the Minister of State who is responsible. These pre-prepared responses from the Department are always a celebration of all that is great and all the money that is being spent. I can tell the Minister of State one thing for certain. The money being spent is not being spent on the care of...

Topical Issue Debate: Occupational Therapy Staff (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: The Minister said he was considering it some months back so I hope it can be done.

Topical Issue Debate: Occupational Therapy Staff (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State.

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome Cian, Vicky and Stephen and thank you for taking the time to be here. The first thing I want to say, on a personal level-----

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I will communicate it to the Whip and I know others have done the same, so I am staying.

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I have been in the Oireachtas since 2002. I am ashamed that, as the body that is supposed to hold all of these organisations to account, we have all spectacularly failed you, and for that I am personally sorry. I have two questions, one for each, although you covered it, Stephen. Normally, we call people "Mister" and so on in here but if you do not mind, we can be more informal. Given the...

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: It would be good if you could return to that question.

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: It had been suggested to me by GPs that no matter where the examinations were done by MedLab, that they were getting results back that were signed by an Irish-registered pathologist. I wondered if, in the course of Mr. O'Carroll's investigations in Vicky's case, it had emerged that one of her tests had been done in this subcontracted laboratory. If this was the case, was it still signed off...

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Was that also MedLab?

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Do not worry, we can tease that out tomorrow.

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Can Cian say from his investigations, if that would be a case of transcribing the results from Austin or would that signing pathologist himself or herself have taken a look at a slide under a microscope?

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: We can tease that out tomorrow. Thank you, that is useful.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Will we suspend? I do not mind going back to my office at this stage. With respect, that might be quicker.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I am going up to my office to get it now.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Last week the Taoiseach, the commander in chief, made his great announcement but a week later it seems nothing has happened. There is to be a central contact person who will contact the 209 women through the hospitals but things need to happen more quickly. Last week we were given three memos, one dated March 2016 and the other two dated July. In the pack that came last night there was a...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Dr. O'Keeffe said she was invited to a meeting with the CervicalCheck team but surely she is over that team.