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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The service does not have an automated system in place up to the current day, but the clinicians-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. I am not making allegations. I am just trying to establish where we are.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I am out of time, so I want to revert to the last question I asked. An automatic process is in place, it has got as far as 2011 and it is moving forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Professor Hill is saying that every woman who gets a breast cancer diagnosis is offered a look-back and that fewer than 10% of those women request one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: If a false negative is found, is it always communicated to the patient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Professor Hill says "Of course", but the CervicalCheck scandal happened because the doctors did not communicate that onwards.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months for treatment, respectively; and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients [21995/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent general practitioners per county; the number working with private lists and public lists, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22041/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to hospitals by each general practitioner; the number of visits to each general practitioner; the rate of referral per general practitioner to hospitals in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22042/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Data (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 483. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a time series analysis of congestion on the M50 junction 16 to 17 to M11 junction 14 to 15 for the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22039/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Data (22 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 484. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures used to analyse congestion on major roads in County Wicklow; the locations these measures are in place; when these measures were installed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22040/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (17 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commencement of negotiations for a new contract for general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21849/18]

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I want to come back to the digital age of consent of 16 years. I have a great deal of respect for Deputy Daly as a parliamentarian but she has scurrilously discredited one of the people arguing for a digital age of consent of 16 years in her contribution. She said everyone agreed with her. Then, she presented one substantive argument to the effect that people who are 13, 14 or 15 years of...

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Then you were not listening carefully enough.

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I want to talk about the digital age of consent and whether it should be set at 16 or 13. I strongly believe that it needs to be set at 16 but I acknowledge that everybody in this debate, including the Minister and others who are advocating setting it at 13, wants to act in the best interests of young people and provide them with the best protection. Some of the debate has been fractious,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for coming here today. I wish Mr. Connaghan the very best of luck in his role. I would like to make a point to Mr. Breslin, as head of the Department, and Mr. Connaghan, as the interim director general for the HSE. Over the past two weeks this committee spent about eight hours with various senior representatives from the Department, HSE and CervicalCheck and we asked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Sorry, 2016. I thank the Chairman. I want to put on the record that that information should have been disclosed. Whether any of us asked the right question exactly, in the spirit of open disclosure and an investigation into open disclosure it was very disappointing that the information was not released. Yesterday we received an entire folder worth of correspondence from that time. Who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: A risk was identified and communicated to the Department that there was the potential for a future loss of confidence in the programme due to media coverage. Is that not exactly the sort of thing which should be escalated to a Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Just to be clear on that, Mr. Breslin does not believe the fact that a risk was flagged with the Department to the effect that there was the potential for a future undermining of this programme because of negative media coverage is the sort of warning that should be escalated to a Minister.