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- 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: What is the average time now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: I thank Mr. Breslin for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: I know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: I agree totally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: Nothing is going to be affected by cost overrun.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: Yes, but it is still €450 million in cash.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is the following year that is the problem, but that is a side issue. I want to get back to the report Dr. Scally is about to issue. I presume he is not just looking at the labs and the extra outsourcing but that he is also looking at quality assurance. Is that part of his remit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: Is Mr Breslin certain?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is good, because we have had many questions on quality assurance. I expect all of those questions to be answered this week or whenever the report comes out. I do not mean that in jest. We all have many questions and there is a lack of traceability. We do not know to where this process has been outsourced. It is gathering all of the time and, as a consequence, we are not reassured...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: There have been improvements, but Dr. Scally's report will be coming up to the current date.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: And the level of quality assurance that obtained.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: I want to make sure, from a quality assurance point of view, that everything historically is now being examined. We need to get to the bottom of all of this. In his first report, Dr. Scally found that quality assurance was non-existent. We will now be getting into the detail of that first finding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: He effectively said that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: He effectively stated that, from an oversight point of view-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: I accept that but that is not what I said.