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Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Pharmacy Services (24 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 267. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to commence talks with the representative body for pharmacy contractors on reform and modernisation of pharmacy services and the unwinding of FEMPI for community pharmacists in view of his commitment given at a conference (details supplied). [38352/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (24 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 268. To ask the Minister for Health when pharmacists will be permitted to provide oral contraception to women without prescription in line with his commitment to improve access to contraception and plans being considered by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38353/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (24 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 269. To ask the Minister for Health when the pharmacy-based minor ailment service will be rolled out to provide medical card holders with advice and appropriate treatment for minor ailments without the need to visit a general practitioner, as is commonplace in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38354/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I want it to be clear that a woman who has a test done privately can be referred to the public system. There seems to be mixing and changing in that regard. As Dr. Doherty said, it was the case that such a woman could be referred to the public system. For some reason, that was not possible for some time, but it is now once more the case that such a woman can be referred to the public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Dr. Doherty is confident they are not being excluded notwithstanding the fact she has said no decision was taken and that however that decision was arrived at it has now been reversed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Of course, it is an awful pity that she would feel the need to go private in the first place. I have asked my next question previously as, I know, have many others. Will the HSE provide me with basic data showing the locations the 221 discordant results were read or misread? Who is responsible for producing these data? Who has had access to this information? My understanding is this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It will be two to four weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: How long has the HSE had the information on where the results were read?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Specifically on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: This is information with regard to laboratories. Nobody is looking for names. This is a question I have asked previously as have other Deputies. To be fair, whenever it is asked, the answer we get is that there will not be any bother with it but we never seem to be able to get it. Mr. McCallion has stated it will be two to four weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The HSE has had it for months and we will know in a month.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The challenge of recruiting staff was mentioned and we are aware there are issues in this regard. Will Mr. McCallion outline the steps that are being taken to repatriate the testing? We will not go back over it but we know it was a political decision to outsource it. I am very proud that I opposed it at the time, although I was not a politician. Other politicians did. I do not believe it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Surely it will also be contingent on being able to train the right people. Many courses were discontinued by virtue of the fact the Government took away the need for them. Mr. McCallion mentioned 2021 and a degree programme of four years. Are people in training at present? Have the numbers been ramped up? Has the HSE liaised with colleges? Is this work being done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It sounds lovely when Mr. McCallion says they are looking to extend it but are they doing anything practically? That aspiration is all very well but I did not support outsourcing at the time and nor do I now. I refer to much of what has happened, such as how tests have been carried out in other jurisdictions. There has been talk of mad stuff like retrospective accreditation and so on. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Finally in this round, I believe Ms Conroy spoke of extra money being provided. It might have been in Mr. McCallion's submission. What is the amount of extra money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: There was nothing in addition to the €5.8 million which was already announced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay, that was the additional money. That is fine. I thank Ms Conroy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank everyone for their patience. I appreciate this is a very long morning for the witnesses. To return to the issue of communication with Sharon, she raised a very serious issue, which we have all now accepted. Some did not accept that initially, but it turned out to be an incredibly serious issue. She was fobbed off with a standard response. I am certain she was not the only person...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That would be an important figure for us to know. When a serious issue like this is raised and people are being fobbed off - others can call it any word they like but that is the one I am choosing to use - women want to know how many emails it takes before they are taken seriously. How serious does the volume have to be? I fully appreciate that the Department would have been in receipt of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms Conroy and I have a very different view of it. I have one technical question involving the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, RCOG, review. I am neither a scientist nor a doctor but my understanding is that in order to be effective, a review of this nature should be done blind. Was the RCOG review a blind review and if not, why not? If it was a blind review, that is...