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National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: The Minister is a reasonable person.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: How will the Minister deal with this? Who told him this? Why did those people not do their job? Why, as a result, has a national crisis been caused tonight? Will the Minister assure the House now that there will be no revelations tomorrow?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Who did not do his or her job?

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: No.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: This is critical. There were one or two contributions tonight that were simply wrong, specifically the commentary relating to the Minister. I believe what the Minister is saying but there is a real issue. The Minister is managing a live process. He was told something earlier and he acted on facts over the weekend. This Dáil debated facts that were wrong, and that cannot happen...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: The Acting Chairman took a minute belonging to me.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: There is a real issue here. The Minister has said that anybody who wants a check can have one and I accept that. We need to give people assurance and we need to look at doing it in different ways.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Let us talk about what that means in a practical sense. There are 250,000 smear tests every year and if everybody with a concern wants a test, how will the system take it? The Minister has assured us the resources will be there. I know many GPs. How in the name of God will they be able to do that? They are asking those questions tonight. We have to give public assurance by other...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Obviously, we know that only for Vicky Phelan and the publicity that the Department of Health figured out was going to be generated, we would not be here talking about this tonight. We are thinking about her tonight. She is watching this debate. I wonder what she is thinking as further revelations are literally happening live in this Chamber. She tweeted a while ago to say "I will be...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Here we go again - Magdalen laundries, hepatitis C, Brigid McCole, Susie Long, Rebecca O'Malley, a neighbour of mine, Amanda Mellet, who I brought to meet the Minister, and now Vicky Phelan. We have a real problem in this country protecting women's health. This issue is on the Minister's watch. He needs to do the right thing. I join with thanking Vicky for her openness and for the way she...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: Is there a script?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: I agree with the Deputy, that is an important question.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: This relates to University College Cork.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes, this is a bit of a laugh. We have raised this issue with the universities and colleges numerous times. Professor O'Shea, at the end of his letter, states that the funding to support the annual €60,000 investment in Cork Opera House is sourced from the university's "own sources of income", for example, non-Exchequer income. If there is one issue that the committee nailed in its...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: It is borderline impossible to prove that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: Let it do so, however.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: First, on 10 May, we are meeting with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I would like us to specifically request the chief executive of Benefacts, an agency under the remit of that Department, to attend that meeting. Representatives of Benefacts appeared before the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Taoiseach. I was very concerned by many of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes. Second, when will the committee address the issue of consultants' pay?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes, issues in regard to funding, expenditure on IT contracts, tendering, future funding and so on.