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

Kate O'Connell: Since CervicalCheck was started and the contracts went out, there was first the College of American Pathologists accreditation, which has now been said to be an equivalent. In 12 years, nobody checked whether the ISOs were always up to date. I cannot understand how nobody considered it vital to go to step 2 of the process.

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

Kate O'Connell: I know. That case is worse again.

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

Kate O'Connell: Before I finish, I wish to clarify a question that I asked Mr. McCallion earlier about the bowel screening contract.

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

Kate O'Connell: I will clarify to ensure that Mr. McCallion will revert with the correct information. MedLab was awarded the tender for CervicalCheck in May 2010. The laboratory did not open until August 2010 and did not obtain ISO accreditation for cervical screening until December 2011. I want to know whether it was testing smears without accreditation before December 2011. The same company - MedLab -...

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

Kate O'Connell: I was just clarifying the question because I may not have been clear before the break.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Collective Asset Management Vehicles (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance if Irish collective asset-management vehicles as incorporated bodies will be required to provide information on beneficial ownership to the register of beneficial ownership; if this information will be made publicly available; if there is an up-to-date membership list in accordance with Regulation 18 of the European Union (Anti-Money Laundering: Beneficial...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the mandate of the national training fund and the way in which its expenditure profile can be reoriented towards more effective in-employment training and modern apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34832/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of all school building projects for the Dublin 6W, 12, 14, 16 and 24 areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the forthcoming patronage process for the new post-primary school for Citywest and Saggart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34827/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ETB-owned site at Fortunestown Lane, Dublin 24, on which temporary primary schools are located will facilitate the new primary school for Citywest and Saggart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34828/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress of the plans to construct permanent buildings for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34829/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources assigned to the Garda specialist units that come within the ambit of special crime operatives, including the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34835/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 819. To ask the Minister for Health the year-on-year change in the number of patients attending the emergency department of Tallaght University Hospital in comparison to the year-on-year change in the number of patients on trolleys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34830/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 820. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in acquiring a site for the Knocklyon and Rathfarnham primary healthcare centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34831/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 821. To ask the Minister for Health the funding to be allocated to drugs and alcohol local task forces in Dublin 24; if additional funding is being allocated in 2019; if so, the amount of additional funding; the timeline and criteria for its allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34833/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 867. To ask the Minister for Health his plans or the plans of the HSE to provide or reimburse ocrelizumab for primary progressive multiple sclerosis patients in view of the decision of the UK (details supplied) [35029/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 1478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports provided under the Climate Action Plan 2019 for the Tallaght district heating scheme; the objectives of the scheme; the role of his Department in overseeing the development of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34825/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 1918. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of residents in both the Citywest and Tallaght areas of Dublin 24 regarding the introduction of the fast-track planning application; if An Bord Pleanála will have regard to the local area plans completed by the local authority for both Citywest and Tallaght town centre in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 1919. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will conduct a review of the new fast-track planning application for large residential developments; if submissions will be invited from the public in respect of these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34821/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (6 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 1920. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the land development agency legislation; when it is planned for the agency to proceed to acquiring brownfield sites within the M50 for residential development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34822/19]