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

Alan Kelly: Tony O'Brien-----

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

Alan Kelly: Which means it did not transfer the information.

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

Alan Kelly: With the Department.

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

Alan Kelly: I accept that. That does not make it right.

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

Alan Kelly: I accept that.

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

Alan Kelly: But it still put women's lives at risk.

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

Alan Kelly: It is a scandal even if it is one woman, two women or ten women.

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

Alan Kelly: He has asked the question of me so I want to clarify. It is a request for me. I did not ask the question. It is very simple. In respect of National Cancer Registry Ireland, I think the Minister gave a figure of 1,621 cases. Of those, a large proportion probably got cancer directly and were not part of the screening process. There is also a proportion that was part of a screening process...

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

Alan Kelly: I know but we do not know if they were told about all of their issues at the time.

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: The personal testimony of Emma Mhic Mhathúna was quite devastating, as everybody has said. I listened to it in my office. I will never forget it. The impact of this scandal on families across this country is causing enormous public distress. As a father and husband, I can only think of my own wife and children. I ask Members to put themselves in a similar situation. Many of us in...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister for answering the questions for once. There is another aspect to this: the Labour Party has been pushing for a long time for the health technology assessment, HTA, to be brought forward in respect of HPV screening of boys. HIQA must do this. This needs to be brought forward in order that we can have herd immunity and protect the population into the future. I ask the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the dates and formats by which each of the HSE’s hospital group managers were told of the 2014 audit of cervical cancer cases; if he will publish the correspondence by which they were told; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20611/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the dates and formats by which each of the HSE’s hospital managers in hospitals (details supplied) were told of the 2014 audit of cervical cancer cases; if he will publish the correspondence by which they were told; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20612/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is accompanied by Ms Ruth Foley, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from the Chairman, Deputy Fleming, and Deputy Pat Deering. The minutes of the meeting on 3 May will be ready next week. Are there any matters arising?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: The first part needs to be published.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: We will do that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: That is a good suggestion.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: How does the Deputy think it appeared in verbatim form? There is obviously a leak somewhere.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Okay, that is noted. We will proceed to correspondence. There are three categories of correspondence. The first is briefing documents and opening statements. No. 1271A is correspondence received from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 10 May, providing briefing for the meeting which was scheduled for today but has been postponed...