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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Given that the capacity has been sourced from Quest Diagnostics, there were issues about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: People believed testing was carried out in one area and then it turned out to be done in Honolulu. Could we get a bit of clarity on where exactly the labs are?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Does that mean they have been quality-assured to Irish standards and not American ones?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: That is good. Perhaps the Minister will provide could confirm the labs' exact location in writing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: That is a better idea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: That is still more than 70,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: If it has gone from atrocious to awful it is still awful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Very well. I have my fingers crossed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank Ms O'Connor. I refer to the issue of the misreading of scans at University Hospital Kerry. That is now back in the media, which is unfortunate and very regrettable. We have seen that more patients have very regrettably and unfortunately passed away. Does the Minister have any idea when the investigation into this will be concluded? Will the Minister go to Kerry to meet the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: That is fine. There is no issue with the Minister meeting the families if he has to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I am sure they would be delighted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: That would be good. I thank Mr. Woods. I have a question for the Minister on the third-party reviewer for the drugs approval and procurement process. Has that person been appointed and if so, who is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: If Mr. Breslin could that would be good. Has that person started work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: The Minister has announced the setting up of a contraception working group within the Department of Health. Will the Minister confirm if this up and running?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Will there be engagement with stakeholders? Has the Minister reached out to them or is it expected that they will have an input into the process themselves? How are they to be involved? I am referring to such organisations as the Irish Family Planning Association, IFPA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: They will be contacted. That is fine. That was my question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I have two very brief questions for Ms Rothwell. I repeat that we were not expecting her to be at this meeting and therefore the Deputies from Waterford have not had a chance to get here, which is very regrettable. It was not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: It was not flagged in either of the opening statements, which would give me to understand that there was not going to be a representative here from the Waterford hospital. The opening statements detail who will attend the committee meeting. When I read those statements I took it to mean there would no such representative attending.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: That is different, Chairman. The committee had told the Department that we expected the representatives to be here but the opening statements did not indicate that there would be such a representative here. All the information we had to go on was that we had made the request, not that the request had been acceded to. While I have Ms Rothwell here, I have two very quick questions, if that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 May 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Ms Rothwell would not have been aware of the issues around bodies decomposing and deceased persons requiring closed coffins because of-----