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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.

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

Alan Kelly: I will forward the transcript of the meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Taoiseach to the Chairman. On health issues, when will the committee deal with the issue of consultants' pay? Third, when will we deal with the UCC-CIT issue? There is a slot available on 24 May. Representatives of An Garda Síochána will be here on 31 May to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: Can we get this up on the screen properly? I was reading it and I got lost.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: We have so many people here that we tend to read from the screen. Can we get online?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: There is an issue of different versions going on here, I think. There are two different-----