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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Legal Costs (24 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to date of legal fees incurred in the case being pursued by the State relating to the decision of the European Commission regarding the alleged grant of state aid to a company (details supplied); the names and amount of fees paid to date to each law firm, senior counsel and barrister; if the barristers are full-time public servants; his views on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority (24 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason four members of the Higher Education Authority who are not ordinarily resident in the State have remained as members of the authority despite section 9 of the Schedule to the Higher Education Authority Act 1971 stating that such persons shall be disqualified from holding and shall cease to hold office in circumstances in which they...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Administration (24 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a group within an application (details supplied) that has been established for communication by members of the Higher Education Authority; his views on whether this is an appropriate method of communication between members of the authority; if a record is kept of all such communications; and if they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses for coming here today. They will have a huge role to play in the coming weeks. It is a very important role. Many people watching proceedings are depending on the witnesses. I know that because people have told me. There is a need for clarity and honesty. There is a need for the witnesses to explain what happened in the past. I have some of their documentation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: It is a statement from the Irish Association for Clinical Cytology.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I mixed up the two of them. It is my fault. I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Let me finish. I have another question. That is the first point. We know now that the 70-30 rule has been cited all along. I was very much taken by the previous outsourcing exercise because it is a statement of fact. It also says: "We would be concerned that an increase in mortality and morbidity may result in Ireland by using a laboratory with low detection rates." There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: That is fine. I use these for historical context.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: That correlates with what Dr. Lambkin said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: What about the link with mortality rate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: It says: "We would be concerned that an increase in mortality and morbidity may result in Ireland by using a laboratory with low detection rates". That is a fairly definitive statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: My point is all of these issues were flagged in 2007.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I will move on because I have a range of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I ran the clock on the others. I have more than three minutes. I refer to the quality of the results being provided. Letters were issued to women. A total of 46 got them in time and others only received them recently. I have a copy of one. On the left it gives the previous result and, on the right, it is reviewed. I know from talking to people and through the audit which started in...

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.