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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-----

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

Alan Kelly: I should have said that it is extremely low. Then there are the 1,000 women who have experienced delays where the normal percentages obtain, but the delay is the concern. I am not apportioning blame but the way the differentiation between these two sets of women was communicated on the one day was a complete disaster. I do not know what went on. I ended up doing a public service duty by...

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

Alan Kelly: I agree. I was following his lead and doing that myself, I have to be honest. The initial communication, in whatever way it went out, just did not work. On the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the RCOG, review, can we be given a guarantee that it will be done? This was meant to be done by May. Obviously, it was absolutely insane to think Dr. Scally was going to report...

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

Alan Kelly: I know exactly what is.

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

Alan Kelly: The fact of the matter is that women are getting their slides reviewed independently. The RCOG review was never realistic in its targets or timelines. I am glad Mr. Breslin is saying it will be done within six months. On day 15 in the High Court, Ruth Morrisey's case is proceeding. This is a very sensitive matter. The fact this woman is having to go through what she is having to go...

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

Alan Kelly: I think the committee would consider that if it helped to speed the process up. I have been approached by a number of women who are not part of the 221+ group but are in exactly the same category. For different reasons, they are in a different cohort. They are part of the cancer registry cohort which comes across. They are essentially in the same category as the 221+ women. I have...