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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: It might be the way it is framed that is problematic. Is the substance an issue we should consider?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: And whether it is an issue that it is proper for the Committee of Public Accounts to deal with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: No. 1528, which is correspondence received on 17 August 2018, was held over. It concerns the national director of the HSE. I raise this matter because somebody contacted me and because it is something we have all raised about the original slides in the cervical screening programme not being released to the women. We were given assurances. The contract for the two laboratories states that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: The Department is leading on this. Knowing what we do about education and training boards and some of the failures, it is difficult to visualise anything being led in the Department. We are seeing things being remediated when failures are identified. Are people in the Department specifically dealing with these matters? If there are not, nothing is being led.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I do not know if the document relating to the report on the Office of Public Works, OPW, has been circulated. There was certainly an article in The Irish Timesabout it and the reporter had sight of the document. Is there any reason it has not been circulated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I would like to contribute.
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I accept the point that Deputy Connolly has made about the role of the Committee of Public Accounts but there are questions about some of the information given earlier on the length of time people are waiting for their slides. Mr. McCallion has given us information. I was contacted by somebody earlier in the week who gave me contrary information. I read in the Daily Mirrortoday that a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: With whom did Mr. McCallion go through them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: People contacted me. I will go back to them and ask if it is alright to pass on their names but I will not be passing them on unless I am given permission to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I have no doubt, however, about their bona fides.
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Can I stop Mr. McCallion here? I am being told that, with specific regard to MedLab, these requests have been made going back to May. Is there an issue with MedLab?
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Do they have to have a solicitor?
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Have the goalposts changed over the months, because that is what I am being told? That is the terminology that is being used, that the goalposts have been changed. One can apply but then all of a sudden one might have to go through a different process. Has there been any change?
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I fully accept that the safety and integrity of the slide must be protected. That is in the women's own interest.
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I completely accept that but what I cannot reconcile is that I am being told by people on the wrong side of this that they have been looking since last May and are being worn down. I cannot reconcile that with the information Mr. McCallion is giving me. I just cannot.
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Can I ask that the HSE work through the 221+ group, with which I know it has a relationship? Can something on that be sorted out today? There is pretty good communication. The group has a private Facebook page on which it communicates. Can Mr. McCallion do that today?
- Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Can he do that today so that there will no ambiguity and no more delay on this?