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

Bríd Smith: Let me finish my point.

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

Bríd Smith: It is not fair to interrupt me. I did not interrupt the Minister.

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

Bríd Smith: I did not interrupt the Minister.

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

Bríd Smith: May I finish my point?

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

Bríd Smith: May I finish my point?

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

Bríd Smith: It is not to question the cytology or the science behind it but to question what the Minister said, that it is quite different from the hepatitis C issue in so far as the State is not responsible for the outcomes. We have to question that. The dust has not settled on it and the jury is still out. Dr. Scally has carried out some fine research and produced fine reports, but there are still...

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

Bríd Smith: -----instead of outsourcing their health services. Despite that, the Minister should not put words in my mouth. I am not trying to reinvent science that I do not understand, but I understand the difference between false negatives and false positives because I have gone to the trouble to understand it. That is not the point I am getting at. I am getting at the irresponsibility of this...

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

Bríd Smith: The Minister was speaking on the amendment when he said something that fundamentally I had to disagree with.

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

Bríd Smith: I tabled an amendment on this issue but it was ruled out of order.

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

Bríd Smith: I tabled an amendment.

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

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 14: In page 12, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(6 )(a) Where the Tribunal is of the view that there is a possibility, but no more than a possibility, that a claimant as a result of having contracted cancer may suffer particular serious consequences in the future, the Tribunal may make an award (‘‘provisional...

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

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 17: In page 13, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "(3) No hearing shall be conducted in public without the express consent of the claimant.". I get that the Minister might have the same intention but I want to be sure that no hearing will be conducted in public without the expressed wishes of the claimant. I know it would fly in the face of...

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

Bríd Smith: Is the wording robust enough?

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

Bríd Smith: I will withdraw the amendment based on what the Minister comes back with.

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

Bríd Smith: What happens if we pass the legislation and the laboratories decide they do not want to opt in?

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

Bríd Smith: There is a difference. The patients request to be dealt with by the tribunal. Surely there should be a compunction on the labs, as there would be on the HSE, to meet that request from a woman, rather than the other way around. They are implicated.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: In a significant development, Dublin City Council yesterday endorsed a motion from one of our councillors, Tina MacVeigh from People Before Profit, to re-municipalise waste management in the city. That means taking the waste management system back into public control and ownership. This very important development paves the way for addressing environmental concerns, the concerns of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: We need sustainable waste management and we can only achieve that via public control.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: The Minister is opposed to the re-municipalisation of waste management. He does not agree with it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Closures (2 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 55. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the planned closure of beds and units at St. Mary's Hospital; the rationale for the closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27926/19]