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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Deputy Kelly asked a very specific question about when Dr. Scally became aware. Will he address that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I call Deputy Durkan. We must move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Time permitting, I will allow Deputy Kelly back in later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I call Deputy Durkan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Before I come to Deputy O'Connell, I want to ask about the laboratories that were closed. Our guests expressed a view about whether there had or had not been any adverse incidents. Was that a result of an investigation or was it an impression?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I will give the Deputy the same leeway I gave everyone else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We have unanimity on that one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Perhaps we could be told what grades the staff in question were serving at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I think we will. I assure the Chairman that the meeting was ably chaired in his absence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am much more of a pushover. I gave everybody a lot of leeway. I share the horror of others regarding the failure of people who were on quality assurance visits to realise that they were not where they should have been or where the majority of tests were taking place. I do not know whether "horror" is too strong a word, but I will use it in any event. In the last line of his letter to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay. I suggest that Dr. Scally's statement that he had no reason to revise the opinion was not a massive ringing endorsement. That does not matter. We know that a lot of information was missing. This meant that Dr. Scally could not necessarily make such a judgment. I presume the reference to "performance which is acceptable in their country" is based on an acceptance that there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That is where my issue lies. We know some countries compare more favourably for all sorts of things. Saying that a performance is the same as an emerging economy jurisdiction is not the same as saying it is of a sufficiently high standard. If we consider ourselves to have a high standard, should we compare ourselves with country A which has relatively low standards and all the labs perform...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Nonetheless, on the basis of that, Dr. Scally was able to ascertain confidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome both the witnesses and wish them the very best in their roles. Mr. Devane referred to the issues of access and capacity. The first recruitment moratorium was introduced in the HSE 12 years ago. By way of context, I happened to be a trade union organiser at the time, and we were engaged in an industrial dispute with the HSE about what the Government of the day was doing in with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: They are the HSE's best asset.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That is welcome. I will give my view and I am not suggesting for a moment that Mr. Devane shares it. The Government's commitment to Sláintecare has been fairly weak. The appointment is very welcome but the money put towards it indicates there is no massive interest in implementing it, notwithstanding the cross-party support for it. Sláintecare needs to be driven from the very top...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: If private care is carried out in a public hospital, access is restricted by necessity. In cases where access is restricted, does Mr. Devane see it as his role to be proactive in ensuring that private care moves out of the public system? I cannot envisage any scenario where private activity being carried out in a public hospital will not interfere with public access. Let us start with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The Sláintecare strategy says that this is what we are going to do and we will do it until the day we say we are not going to do it, for the reasons the Deputy implies. We have to make sure that the €16 billion of taxpayers' money which is being spent is used as effectively as possible. That has to be the starting point for everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise. I have to leave.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: My intervention was on a practical procedural matter. As the Minister has indicated he will liaise with the Deputies who put forward those amendments, I ask that it would be shared with members in a timely manner to give those of us who will be voting an opportunity to study them. My intention is to support the amendments, in that the Minister has accepted the spirit of them, but the hope...