Results 12,001-12,020 of 21,090 for speaker:Alan Kelly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: If the rules-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: The Deputy is not chairing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I will take the same time as the previous speaker.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Deputy Durkan is not the Ceann Comhairle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: This is ridiculous.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Can I ask my question please? I direct this question to Dr. O'Keeffe. This is intriguing me. Why did the first memo happen on the date it did? Why was there a decision to do a memo in March 2016? It was March 2016, was it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Why did it start then? Had it anything to do with the fact that one of the two women, who took legal cases before they unfortunately passed away, Lord rest them, had been told about her situation in respect of a number of smears taken some years previously? She had been notified just prior to that date. Was there any correlation between the fact that she had just been told and this document...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: To conclude, is there a correlation between this memo on this date of all dates and the fact that she had been told in February? Obviously, she was not able to make her appointment, which is referenced in the documentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I ask Dr. O'Keeffe to answer my question. What stimulated the memo?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I thank Dr. O'Keeffe for answering the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I will take it, because I know that Deputy Durkan will be watching the clock. I thank the witnesses for their time today. I know they have given a considerable amount of time, and that they are all under pressure. Let us call a spade a spade. It is the issue everyone is discussing and it is a national crisis, so I appreciate their time. I also appreciate their frankness. There have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Then those minutes obviously do not reflect the conversation that took place at those meetings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Does Mr. Connaghan believe that those minutes reflect the actual discussions and conversations that took place around those issues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Does it not seem strange to Mr. Connaghan that these issues were not brought up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: That is fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Yes, it is our duty to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I asked a number of questions on Monday. Considering the issues we are looking at in the Department of Health and the HSE, to send the information as late as it did is frankly disgraceful. We have not had time to look at these answers. We will have to go through our correspondence in all other matters and suspend for a significant period of time. This is a big jigsaw, and we are getting...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I agree with the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Hear, hear. I agree 100% with the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Until I see them-----