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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Alan Kelly: Yes, it is my local regional hospital and I have always campaigned for it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Alan Kelly: -----but the Minister told me last week that funding had not been secured but his colleagues came out a day after I released this information and said they had a guarantee from the Minister that it was. How can the Minister answer a parliamentary question and say it has not been secured? The Minister has told us numerous times that the capital plan will not be announced until next week. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Alan Kelly: I will put that last comment in at 5 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Alan Kelly: On both questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Alan Kelly: So it will be funded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Alan Kelly: To be honest, we have had a number of examples of this. There was the answer the Minister gave to my parliamentary question, and there was the answer the Minister gave to a parliamentary question previously for which he apologised to Fianna Fáil about not sticking the line on. I ask the Minister not to respond to parliamentary questions like that. It is not appropriate for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister. I am delighted to hear-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Alan Kelly: I know but the Minister knows I asked a very specific question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Alan Kelly: What does Mr. Breslin mean by his understanding? It either was advised or it was not.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: 46. To ask the Minister for Health if a guarantee will be provided that the 24-week delay in smear testing under the CervicalCheck programme has not adversely affected the health outcomes for some women [5414/19]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: As stated, there are comprehensive delays in screening women for cervical cancer. The delays have maximised at 24 weeks, if not longer. While I accept the Minister's bona fides in respect of why he did this, I ask him to provide a guarantee for the House that the delay will not have a significant impact on any woman's health prognosis.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: I accept the Minister's bona fides regarding the decision-making on this issue. However, I must question the making of a decision like this without knowing whether we had the resources to meet demand. The Minister is in a unique position which those of us in opposition are not. As for the consequences, I was glad to hear in reply to a previous question that the Minister's chief medical...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: What I am getting at is very clear and I think the Minister knows I am into the detail. I accept that some of the women concerned could have had false negatives. Some could have issues related to the laboratories about which we do not yet know because we do not know about percentages in the RCOG review. The issue is whether the Minister can guarantee that no woman's health has been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: Neither Minister is here.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: Government circulars are not worth the paper they are written on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: Answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: Who said that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: A question was asked over here.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Feb 2019)
Alan Kelly: 191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date in October 2018 on which his attention was drawn to, either formally or informally, of the overspends in the costs of the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5619/19]