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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first-year second level places available in each school in County Meath for the 2018-19 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21095/18]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (16 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: This afternoon I met representatives from ICTU to discuss the housing crisis. For their members, the issues of pay restoration and changes in terms and conditions, as well as all the normal union matters, will count for little if they cannot put roofs over their heads through purchasing a home or at the least gaining secure tenancy. The issue of affordability is key to what was in their...

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)

Shane Cassells: First, I thank Vicky and Stephen for being here this evening. On a sunny evening such as this, I am sure that, as young parents, they would prefer to be playing with Amelia and Darragh or Oscar and Noah rather than be in a committee room in the bowels of Leinster House discussing this subject. We thank them for making the time available to give their accounts. Stephen said he wondered what...

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)

Shane Cassells: He was tweeting about the people in this room and seemed to be more concerned about throwing that Scud than being involved in a process of engagement that could help. I would like to hear Vicky's reading of that situation and those comments and her thoughts on whether a protect-and-deny culture is still endemic. Is that fuelling her request for a complete clear-out to allow for an honest...

Committee on Public Petitions: Personal Assistant Services for Individuals with a Disability: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: I thank all the witnesses who have given us their time today. As Dr. McCarthy has said, there is a need to educate the members of this committee and the wider public about the services that are being availed of. I thank the representatives of the Department of Health and the Disability Federation of Ireland and, most importantly, those who have given their testimony and set out their lived...

Committee on Public Petitions: Personal Assistant Services for Individuals with a Disability: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Okay.

Committee on Public Petitions: Personal Assistant Services for Individuals with a Disability: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: In regard to Dr. McCarthy's point that the data is out of date, is it significantly out of date and what level of investment is needed in data gathering to bring it up to a level which she believes is reflective of the challenges being faced?

Committee on Public Petitions: Personal Assistant Services for Individuals with a Disability: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Is it an accepted fact on the part of the Department and the Disability Federation of Ireland that the data is out of date?

Committee on Public Petitions: Personal Assistant Services for Individuals with a Disability: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Clearly, something is preventing people registering their need for the service.

Committee on Public Petitions: Personal Assistant Services for Individuals with a Disability: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: Is Dr. McCarthy saying that because there was an expectation that services would follow the collection of data, organisations and agencies stopped collecting the data?

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

Shane Cassells: There are issues with the Department of Justice, the Garda, the Department of Health and NAMA.

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)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the witnesses. I will start with the opening statements at the beginning of today's meeting and the reflection on the testimony from yesterday evening. I am conscious that the opening statements obviously were updated last night to take account of the testimony heard then. Given that, and that the testimony was from the people who were affected, I want to dwell on it. They are...

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)

Shane Cassells: I am using Mr. Teap's words. I am not making this a charged environment. We had a key witness who lost his wife and was directly impacted. He chose his words very carefully and said the culture was to protect the system and to deny. I ask, with no false platitudes for that man, whether Mr. Breslin accepts his words last night, not that there was a falling down but that there was a culture...

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)

Shane Cassells: I do not want Mr. Breslin to empathise with him, but to answer either "Yes" or "No". Does he accept the accuracy of Mr. Teap's words? I am not asking if Mr. Breslin has empathy with him, that he would feel the same way, but if he accepts what he has said, "Yes" or "No".

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)

Shane Cassells: I always say that witnesses' choice of language here is very important . There is a difference between not having an open culture and having a culture that seeks to protect and deny. It is a nuanced difference. Mr. Breslin says there is not a culture of openness. That is different from accepting that there is a culture of denying truth coming to the surface. If he is able to accept that...

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)

Shane Cassells: Mr. Breslin is the head man, so I am asking about his sense of the organisation he controls, not just at managerial level but throughout it. We know from being in political parties that leadership comes from the top and that is reflective of the people and troops on the ground. If Mr. Breslin, as Accounting Officer, can accept that there is not a culture of openness in his organisation, can...

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)

Shane Cassells: I am putting it fairly straight.

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)

Shane Cassells: Yes, that is no problem.

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)

Shane Cassells: I am not asking Mr. Breslin to come down against a man who has suffered a bereavement; I am asking him to analyse Mr. Teap's words very distinctly. Mr. Teap said there was a culture of protect and deny. I am sure he would say that he would prefer the truth here today, rather than Mr. Breslin trying to protect his feelings. Mr. Breslin should not use the shield of saying that he will not...

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)

Shane Cassells: In his opening remarks, Mr. Breslin spoke of the brave testimony. This galls me. There is no point in coming here to talk about brave testimony if one is not going to give substance to what is being discussed. He referred to how this raised "profound questions". They are not just questions but profound questions. If these questions are so profound can I ask Dr. Holohan, when he reflects...