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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I do not agree. I believe the idea that he was asked to go in and investigate something he has been party to is ridiculous. Did Dr. O'Keeffe want to continue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I will come back to that. The reason I am glad Dr. O'Keeffe gave me the earlier date is because I want to know when both of these individuals were aware of this and involved in the process. I want to know the actions they took and when they took them. Dr. O'Keeffe did say that, and she has explained clearly that it would have been in the early days of March 2016, but we all know they were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: We all know Mr. Lynch would have been part of the conversation after that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Let us find that out. Mr. McCallion is here on Mr. Lynch's behalf.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Mr. Lynch was not privy to any communications in July 2017 or anything like that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I am asking Mr. McCallion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Of course you will because he is not here. That is my point. On the process by which the communications went to the clinicians, does Dr. O'Keeffe stand over all the memorandums with her name on them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Does she stand over their content, the tone and the way they were expressed-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: -----even though her own Minister and others in both the Department of Health and the HSE have expressed deep concern about them and believe they should never have been written in that way? Dr. O'Keeffe stands over them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: I quote: "In cases where the woman has died, simply ensure the result is recorded in the woman's notes." Does Dr. O'Keeffe believe that was okay, and that it was ethical? Second, on the real issue here, Dr. O'Keeffe was in charge of this area. Subsequently, I understand her position changed and it was no longer part of her area. Mr. Connaghan might tell us why that happened. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Open disclosure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Open disclosure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: We are caught for time. Could Doctor O'Keeffe answer the other two questions I asked before the Chairman cuts us off?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: That was not one of my questions. That was for Mr. Connaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: There are two more.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: They had no responsibility.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Ms O'Keeffe might answer my final question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: It is the most important question that I believe will be asked today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)
Alan Kelly: Why did Dr. O'Keeffe not follow up? Why did she not do her job?