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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Based on that, do not respond to my questions. I want the delegation to take them on board. I will not ask any questions about what Portiuncula Hospital and we are going to deal with that during a specific session. I have lots of questions relating to that. I take a particular interest in eHealth Ireland. I ask Mr. Sullivan to break down the proposed spend for that over the coming...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: For me, that is a scandal and I will not stop until we get to the bottom of why this information was not transferred. To be fair, I do not believe the Minister knew. Given what we know now, women's lives were put at risk and, we do not even know yet, some women may have died.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Which means it did not transfer the information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: With the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I accept that. That does not make it right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: But it still put women's lives at risk.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: It is a scandal even if it is one woman, two women or ten women.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: He has asked the question of me so I want to clarify. It is a request for me. I did not ask the question. It is very simple. In respect of National Cancer Registry Ireland, I think the Minister gave a figure of 1,621 cases. Of those, a large proportion probably got cancer directly and were not part of the screening process. There is also a proportion that was part of a screening process...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I know but we do not know if they were told about all of their issues at the time.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Concert Hall (9 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: 63. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the refurbishment of the National Concert Hall will proceed as part of Ireland 2040; when the works will go to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20008/18]

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely.

Health Service Reform: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I will be supporting the motion and thank the Members of the Rural Independent Group for tabling it. I will confine my comments to the CervicalCheck issue. It has been said the chief executive of the HSE will not be turning up at the Joint Committee on Health at 9 a.m. I might be breaking some protocol, but, as the Acting Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts on Thursday, he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I know I only have a few minutes but I thank the witnesses for the honesty with which they have approached the committee. I was watching a lot of the proceedings. The meeting has been very helpful. We will have a debate on health tonight, a meeting of the Committee on Health, on which I sit, tomorrow and a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts, which I will chair and before which Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: I think this is important for the witnesses because an awful lot is being said in the media and so on about what the State Claims Agency does. Effectively, there needs to be a change or an alteration, for want of a better to word, to its statutory remit to allow it more flexibility when it comes to these kinds of cases. Whether Mr. Breen likes it or not, if something does not change and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes, absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Even though the State Claims Agency would obviously rather have all this dealt with quickly through mediation, which would be the right scenario, given the circumstances.