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Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am not making it up.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste has said this is about accountability and a breach of trust. I argue that it is also about the privatisation of women's healthcare. When we delve into the inquiry that is promised, we have to look at how outsourcing since 2008 has impacted the results of screening and led to women dying as a consequence. It has also led to an award by a private company to Vicky Phelan....

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Just do that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 208. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the referendum campaign on the eighth amendment of the Constitution. [18887/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if proposals that will protect workers in defined benefit schemes from attempts by their employers to abandon such schemes will be brought forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19324/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a jobseeker that refuses to sign a PPP with a JobPath provider such as Seetec and so on will not automatically face sanctions from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19325/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach promised the women of Ireland that they can be retested by their general practitioner, GP. That is very welcome because cervical testing and screening is very important. However, questions arise. In my office alone there are three women who cannot get appointments with their doctors. There is a crisis with GPs services. One woman can get an appointment at the end of May....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: There is a point, to find out if the test was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Could Mr. O'Brien repeat that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Mr. O'Brien was asked on the "Today with Sean O'Rourke" programme about the concerns raised in 2008 by Dr. David Gibbons and Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith. Dr. Gibbons and other scientists subsequently resigned because their concerns were ignored and dismissed. When that was put to Mr. O'Brien, he said that he had addressed those concerns in the final contract before it was awarded to Quest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I know. Is the screening carried out in Sandyford or do they just dispatch and export the screens off to America? It has been said that the tests are dealt with in Sandyford but are they are carried out there? I am wondering because I am trying to track what is happening. I was talking to my doctor three weeks ago and I am wondering how the decision is made to send a smear to America, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: In Sandyford?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Sandyford does the work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: They are not sent off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: On the other question, did Mr. Gleeson keep that secret?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: What does up the line mean? Who did Mr. Gleeson send it to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Did the witness report it to Mr. Tony O'Brien or anybody in the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Does Mr. Gleeson not find that extraordinary? Does Mr. O'Brien not find it extraordinary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: Who did the witness send it to up the line? That is what I would like to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: What is the title?