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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: 2011 appears to have been a bad year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I appreciate Ms Culliton's honesty. In fairness, she is spot-on. We have a memorandum-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I have many other questions but I will come back in again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I have many questions about the future in addition to the current situation. Let us consider the note that was prepared by the HSE for the Minister for Health and the Department only a month ago in April. It states there was no issue relating to quality. That is famously said in the memorandum. We all know now that was completely ridiculous and wrong. I refer to the audit process. When...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Chair, I cannot get any rhythm when I keep being interrupted. In fairness, I do not think others have been interrupted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Will I just leave? My point is that there is a requirement for a quality assurance review. It was quite obvious within the HSE and there was a failure there to notice this, which is obviously a process failure and a failure of management.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: The decision was at a political level rather than-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: To summarise, I think it was ultimately a political decision rather than political as in party political or ideological. I have some questions and I am going to run through them so that the witnesses can answer at the end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Incidentally, Mr. Naughton's intervention with Deputy Donnelly was very worthwhile-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: -----for the people watching. I asked earlier about the 209 and the trend in the audit. There were catastrophic differences between P2s and P9s. Given the witnesses' professional expertise, I ask whether a quality audit should have been carried out by the HSE. I ask all six witnesses for a "Yes" or "No" answer at the end. I am not trying to catch anyone out. I just want the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Exactly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I asked the same question of all six witnesses on whether the HSE should have conducted a quality audit when it saw the returns. I asked for a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: It did not happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: No, it did not happen. We have asked this question before. It did not happen after the audit. The women were not even told.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: It was a management failure that it did not happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: How quickly will we be able to do HPV testing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Are we talking years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Oh dear, that is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: We will move on but can I have my questions answered? There is the question regarding the sum from a laboratory point of view.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: It is available publicly.