Results 44,961-44,980 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: No, I do not want a general observation; I want an answer to the question I have asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I know that less than 100%, mathematically, can include 70% but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: -----that is not the question I am asking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Can someone answer the question I am asking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I understand that. I am not looking for a statistical conversation about it. Can Dr. McKenna answer the question I have asked?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: That still does not address the question I asked. Dr. O'Keeffe is talking about the percentage of the population covered. I am talking about an individual woman. An individual woman is told that the test is not 100% accurate. That is the information she is given and that is the information consultants are given. The reality is that if that woman has pre-cancerous cells, the screening has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I just want to note that as far as I am concerned, I still have not had a straight answer to the question. I am not asking Dr. McKenna if the information provided to patients is statistically or mathematically true. I am asking, in the context of a patient walking into a GP's surgery, whether he believes it is accurate or misleading in terms of the quality of the test.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Is it possible to see the advice provided in 2015? Is it in writing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: This is the advice provided for the then Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar, saying why mandatory disclosure should not be legislated for. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Did Dr. Holohan provide the actual advice? There is the material backing up the advice and then there is the advice. Did he provide the advice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Chairman, may I just make a point? I am sorry. It will be very quick.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: It will. I ask Deputy Durkan to bear with me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: This is an example of what I am talking about. I asked Mr. Breslin earlier specifically about this legal advice-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Sure. That is true. Sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Could the Chair come back to me after Deputy O'Reilly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I want to thank everybody. I know we are into our fifth or sixth hour here and I know the witnesses are dealing with this issue at the same time, so I want to thank them all for their time. It is appreciated. I refer specifically to the women being supported. The HSE data on Monday, indicated that about two in every five women looking for a return call had yet to receive one. Could the...
- Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I welcome tonight's motion on the need for mandatory and enforceable open disclosure. I acknowledge the work done by Deputy O'Reilly in tabling this motion which Fianna Fáil will be supporting. The HSE's policy on open disclosure is not ambiguous. It is not a "nice to have" or an aspiration. The HSE's 2013 policy document describes open disclosure as "an open, timely and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (15 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 334. To ask the Minister for Health if electronic transmission of blood test results has ceased in some cases; the areas in which this has ceased; and the actions he will take to resolve the issue [20800/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (15 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff by category required to meet additional acute bed targets annually in the coming five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20868/18]