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

Alan Kelly: I am finished.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Accountability (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his officials and civil servants across the public service are subject to circular 12/2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6427/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Meetings (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the dates, attendees and purposes of all meetings he or his special advisers had with a person (details supplied) in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [6519/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Correspondence (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 204. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish all correspondence between a person (details supplied) or his office or officials with the Minister, his special advisers, the Secretary General of his Department or the Secretary General's office in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date on 2019. [6520/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Children's Hospital (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all communications between his Department and the Department of Health regarding the national children’s hospital in 2017 and 2018 and to date in 2019 will be published. [6610/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 434. To ask the Minister for Health when a report (details supplied) on the review of genetics services here will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6630/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 435. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied), under its contract to provide cervical screening services to the HSE, outsources some of its work outside of the contract with the HSE to labs in the United States of America; if so, when he and a person were notified of same; the actions that have been taken as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6631/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 464. To ask the Minister for Health if a copy of all minutes of meetings of the board or sub-committees of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board held in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, will be provided. [6830/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 514. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is being provided in the 2019 capital plan for the new 60-bed modular unit at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7134/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 515. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 721 of 15 January 2019, if the reply is accurate in view of his comments at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health regarding the proposed new 60-bed modular unit for University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7135/19]

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: -----and University Hospital Limerick. He is giving funding to both to speed up the building of modular units, as I confirmed yesterday.

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: That shows the real issues. The staff are working in environments in which they simply do not have enough space or nurses. There are real issues in recruitment. A range of vacancies in Limerick have not been filled. Two weeks ago with other Oireachtas Members from County Tipperary I met management of the HSE and South Tipperary General Hospital where one of the modular units is to be...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: It has been a difficult week for the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris. I do not say that in jest. I hope he is going to take very seriously the concerns raised yesterday by the paramedics and doctors because, along with the nurses, they comprise the bedrock of our health service. I am glad the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, is sitting beside the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I will leave to the Chair the methodology by which the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform comes in here. It is necessary for the Secretary General of the Department to come in and I suspect he wants to come in, to one committee or another. The head of procurement, who sat on the board, should also come in. It is only through this that we can get to the bottom of where this was...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Amazingly, yesterday in the health committee it was confirmed to me that the Minister was made aware of the cost overrun on 9 August. He was in a meeting with the Taoiseach at the time, coincidentally, and the Taoiseach was informed on the same day, as was the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe. The steering group minutes show that there were concerns in April, May,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I can forward them on. Every member of the health committee has them.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: The board was reporting to the steering group, which reported to the other board, the one which had been set up by Mr. Jim Breslin. The steering group was set up in May and the other board in September. They obviously had concerns back then or they would not have put in these layers of accountability. It was confirmed to me at yesterday's health committee meeting that attempts were made...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am glad you said that but does it not depend on the way this was set up under the legislation, and on how the board was incorporated?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: That is my point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: My understanding is that this does not apply in relation to how it was incorporated. It was incorporated under health legislation.