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Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: The purpose of the question was to seek clarity because many people are asking me.

Mental Health Services Reports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I move amendment No. 2:(a) To insert the following after “dietetics and seating assessments;”: “ — that according to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014, social inequalities are associated with higher rates of mental health difficulties, with more unequal societies experiencing greater rates of mental health distress; and — over 90 per cent of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if the commencement of the CervicalCheck tribunal has to await the outcome of the appeal of the State against a judgement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28653/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank Dr. O'Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I am sure they have been looking forward to today. I have many questions. I will not get through them all today; it is impossible in the timeframe. I have spent hours, days and weeks in discussions with patient advocates. The questions I have lined up are theirs. They have asked me to ask these questions. I will not get through them all today so I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Was Dr. Scally of the view that it was not his role?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: It was part of the terms of reference. That is the only reason I ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Accreditation and quality assurance are two different things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Dr. Scally never communicated that quality assurance was not part of his role to any of the patient representatives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I just want to be clear on that. Quality assurance and accreditation are two very distinct parts of the terms of reference. I have asked Dr. Scally the following question before and I have received a letter in response. The Minister read it out in the Dáil on Tuesday. I did not know he had been sent it because, according to my copy of it, it had not been cc'd to him. I still do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: How did Dr. Scally find out about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Dr. Scally visited it in January.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: The HSE did not tell Dr. Scally about the lack of accreditation, he found out himself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I have read the report. Dr. Scally does not need to repeat it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am not being rude but my time is restricted. I still do not understand how there is not one date on which Dr. Scally personally found out, by being told by someone or from his own research, that the laboratory was not accredited. To be honest, it just does not make sense. There has to be a date on which he found out it was not accredited. I want to confirm this. He did not find out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: The Vice Chairman has been very helpful. Dr. Scally said it should have been listed on the schedule of accreditation. Instead of asking when Dr. Scally found out that it did not have accreditation, when did he find out that it should have been on the schedule and that it was not? There has to be a date for everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I asked Dr. Scally the same question when the report came out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: It is not credible to me that there is not a date. There has to be a date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Dr. Scally might reflect on it. When it came to quality assurance and accreditation, we understand that he would have investigated the laboratories, unlike the case when he went to MedLab in January, took its word and subsequently went through the process that he outlined, which is confusing to the public. I am concerned about the chronology of what happened. I believe what the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Dr. Scally said to me that he did.