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National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am glad the Minister's colleagues are present and that he is here to represent the Government. I feel some of my questions will be more oriented to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. I am pleasantly surprised he is here. When we look at the hundreds of documents we have gone through, we find there is a letter that came in from the contractor on 24 August. It is an alarming letter, no...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: The Minister is fine that they did not raise concerns.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: My next question is addressed to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. He knows I keep going on about circular 12/10. We have a difference of opinion in regard to what that circular means and our party has a very defined view of what it means. I will outline what it means in regard to this project, where a very senior civil servant from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is sitting on...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: That was not an answer. As I was driving up today, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, said on "Morning Ireland" that something went very wrong here. I thought it was very honest of him to say that. He said, "I acknowledge my role in that ... we will learn for the future." I would like the Minister to tell me what role it was and what mistakes he feels he is acknowledging. He said something...

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: We debated this last week so I will repeat what I said then. We are now in a different space where an agreement has been reached. I will not interject on that because it is up to the individual unions to vote on it over the next few weeks after having debated the proposals and reached decisions. I wish to make a few points, however. What probably distinguishes this Government from previous...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has sent communication from his Department in recent months requesting the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to make budgetary savings in order to provide extra funding for the overspend in the national children’s hospital; and if so, if the correspondence will be published. [7301/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Administration (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if the risk registers from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board for 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, respectively, will be published. [7373/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Administration (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 148. To ask the Minister for Health if the board minutes of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board from 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, respectively will be published. [7374/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Not with me the Vice Chairman will not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: The ball was there; I had to hit it. I will follow on from Deputy Donnelly's questions, and he has probably saved me some time because this is the issue I have been raising for some time and, in fairness to Mr. McCallion, I asked this question a number of months ago and he was very honest in his answer. Mr. McCallion told me that, essentially, there was no way to reprioritise or to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am not apportioning blame but I have details of people who are affected in this way and they do not know their outcomes yet. We wish them the best but there is no doubt that what I outlined is how they ended up where they are. I hope it does not give rise to a range - it would be a smaller number of cases - of other issues for women's health.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: If Mr. Breslin did not get grey hair in the past few weeks, he will never get it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I agree. That was my main question and I want to follow on from Deputy Donnelly's questions. I wanted Dr. McKenna to confirm what I was saying. I have another few brief questions. I have a deep concern that Dr. Scally's initial report on the laboratories is not accurate. Has Mr. Breslin any information on the outsourcing being worse than what was reported? We know from Dr. Scally's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I do not believe I am inaccurate in what I said. Am I?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: When will that report be issued?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Will it be this week?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Is it not incredible that in the initial process this was not found out? He had to dig a lot deeper to get an admission that the contracts that had been signed with these laboratories had, in turn, a whole range of arrangements in place to outsource to other laboratories, which for God knows how many years, no one had any clue about. Quality control was out the window.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: That is an understatement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: A couple of weeks ago, those of us who have gone into the detail of this noticed the differentiation between the 6,000 women who got the letters about having to be re-scanned - that is a secondary test as Dr. McKenna pointed out previously and is quite a low risk-----