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Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Of course.

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Exactly.

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Exactly.

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely.

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Trying to get information that should be readily available has been like pulling teeth in the last few weeks. I do not believe it is acceptable. I am trying to do my job here. In order to get through this jigsaw I have made requests to the Secretary General and have asked parliamentary questions about when all the hospital groups and all the individual 11 hospitals involved were made aware...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: What are they doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: When did they apply for leave?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: We were told earlier that individuals would be held to account. We have the biggest health crisis in decades, and two important people in the story are out of the country. They should not be on leave, whether they had it planned for days, weeks or months. Those people are supposed to be in front of the Committee of Public Accounts tomorrow, of which I am Vice Chairman, and they will not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I may add that Mr. Breslin sent me a disgraceful response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I have not got it. I came down here at 9 o'clock this morning and I have not got anything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: To be honest, what I got was a disgrace. To say that because of the Scally inquiry I could not ask basic parliamentary questions-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Breslin did accept it last Thursday. What was worrying is the fact that he did not see it before it is issued.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: To save time, when it comes to this issue I suggest Mr. Breslin looks at what is coming out of his Department. Otherwise, he could be misled. Second, with regard to that, will Mr. Breslin please inquire who in his Department authorised sending back such a response? I am stuck for time so I have to keep going. Mr. Connaghan-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: That is fine. Mr. Breslin has done that. Mr. Connaghan, will those two individuals be in front of us tomorrow?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Does Mr. Connaghan think it is good practice and good management that in the middle of a national crisis two of the most senior people, one who is chairman of the serious incident management team, SIMT, which went in to investigate this matter and was appointed by Mr. Connaghan's predecessor, and who are over acute hospitals, are out of the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Can Mr. McCallion answer my question, please? Does he believe it is good management practice, in the middle of a national crisis, for these two senior individuals to be out of the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: The public are watching this. That is not a good answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Mr. McCallion has plenipotentiary status here. Specifically, when did Mr. Woods and Mr. Lynch become aware of the issues around CervicalCheck?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Who is dealing with it?