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Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (18 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: 364. To ask the Minister for Health if the report on a review of the statement of concern that children had been damaged by the HSE orthodontic services in Dublin-mid-Leinster more than a decade previously which was submitted on 6 February 2015 will be published [25071/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (18 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: 390. To ask the Minister for Health if all communication, correspondence and documents, or all of the above, between him, his office, his advisers, his Department and a person (details supplied) and or their team and officials and a company from 1 January 2019 and to date in 2019 will be published. [25198/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (18 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: 405. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fund an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25280/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (18 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: 475. To ask the Minister for Health if women who are eligible for the review of cervical cancer slides by a body (details supplied) are not being included in the review due to the fact their slides cannot be found; if so, the number of women this has happened to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25488/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme (18 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: 512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if notice was given to farmers prior to the 19 November 2018 launch of the organic farming scheme; if so, the date of the notice; if there will be an opportunity to apply for the scheme in 2019; his plans to expand the scheme in view of its positive impact on the environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25012/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme (18 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: 513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assessment he carried out in 2018 prior to his announcement to immediately reopen the organic farming scheme; if he will provide a report on the work of the organic sector strategy group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25013/19]

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: That is true.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: The Minister and I have spoken at length on this topic many times. When it comes to various different areas of health and all the strategies that are continuously put forward, this is pound for pound the best strategy that has been published in any area in healthcare. It is one of the best strategies I have seen written down and it is very comprehensive. The Minister will see it is about...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I have only five minutes and look forward to the six minutes of questions more than to these five minutes. I want to commence by asking the Minister to do something. Yesterday in the Dáil, the Taoiseach stated - I know what I am talking about here - that representatives of Ruth Morrissey were aware of the decision to appeal the case. They were not. The Taoiseach has been communicated...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: Why did the secondary report take such a long period of time seen as it was meant to be completed much more quickly? It took nine months.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: On 12 February, in a reply to a parliamentary question I tabled, the Minister stated he could confirm that Dr. Scally had indicated to him on 31 January that in the course of his work, he identified further laboratories. The Minister went on to state he was awaiting Dr. Scally's report, which was expected soon. The following day, at a meeting of the Committee on Health, when I asked the...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I will recap to be helpful. On 12 February, the Minister stated the report was due. On 13 February, the Secretary General said it was imminent. On 14 February, there was a meeting with Dr. Scally and, on 15 February, he wrote to the Minister with the updated timeline. That was the Minister's final meeting with Dr. Scally until the report was published, according to the Minister's records.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: There were regular meetings until 14 February, after which there was a large gap until the report came in. Did Dr. Scally give the Minister any other versions of the report before it was published?

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I have raised the issue with the Minister on a number of occasions because I believe the Secretary General of the Department when he said the report was imminent. Obviously, something has changed that made it not imminent and we will have to get to the bottom of what that was. On the Manchester laboratory, I asked Dr. Scally last week when he found out it was not accredited. He told me...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: The Minister might ask Dr. Scally. I have asked him but he has not reverted to me. I need to know what date he found out about the non-accreditation. I know the dates he found out about the four extra laboratories but I want to know when he found out that the Manchester laboratory was not accredited.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I have asked him.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I want some assurance from the Minister. Dr. Scally said it was surprising and disturbing that the Manchester laboratory was not accredited. I want to know when he found out, how the Irish National Accreditation Board, INAB, was informed, and who informed it, given that it inspected the laboratory on 17 April? The INAB gave a three-year retrospective accreditation without any baseline. On...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: A clinical statement.

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I will group my final questions. Were there any changes to the governance structure in the HSE in respect of the screening programme in the months leading up to the report, or changes to personnel? When will the audit begin again? When will the Minister issue the apology to which he committed? Will he consider instructing the HSE to examine potential breaches of contract to save the...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: I had contact with them in the past hour.