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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (10 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield from DIRT in 2017; the forecasted yield in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20533/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (10 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield from life assurance exit tax in 2017; the forecasted yield in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20534/18]

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: I commend Deputies Rabbitte, Jack Chambers and O'Callaghan on their work in bringing forward this Bill. The Government really has a lot to answer for. Fine Gael has been in government for seven years and there has been no decisive action. While the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, might be personally committed to this, there is a blockage somewhere, be it in the system or in strands...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (9 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 51. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of her Department's funding contribution to a project (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19897/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Data (9 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 1 May 2018, the number of cases referred to the Central Bank by the FSO-FSPO by year and area, that is, investment products, insurance or banking; the overall nature of the original complaint in each case; the grounds on which the FSO-FSPO deemed it necessary to refer each case to the Central Bank; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Media in Education (9 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his policy on the use of social media by primary schools; the steps he is taking to ensure that children whose parents do not wish their child to feature in the school's social media posts are not excluded from school activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20237/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility (9 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if a person is allowed a deduction from their income for rental payments they are making or certain loan repayments in the context of the financial assessment under the nursing home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20308/18]

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

Michael McGrath: I thank Mr. Breen and Ms Foley for coming here today. Does Mr. Breen accept that the State has a liability to women who had smears misread and who were not informed of that as soon as the State discovered, following an audit, that those smears were misread?

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

Michael McGrath: Let us be very clear that in the 200 plus cases so far of women who developed cancer, and who had misread smears and were not informed immediately when that was discovered, the State accepts liability for those cases.

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

Michael McGrath: Given that the numbers involved will rise very significantly - the State Claims Agency has ten cases currently and, tragically, three of those women have died - and there will be many more cases of women who develop cancer where their smears were misread and they were not told as soon as that information had become available to the State, how will that be dealt with to avoid a situation where...

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

Michael McGrath: What does the indemnification that is in place between the HSE and the independent laboratories cover?

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

Michael McGrath: In the Dáil last week, the Taoiseach said: "We will need a scheme of redress for women whose cancer was missed and should have been detected beyond normal error". That does not necessarily mean that every misread smear will result in a liability.

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

Michael McGrath: The Taoiseach accepted the need for a scheme of redress where the cancer was missed and should have been detected beyond normal error.

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

Michael McGrath: Where there is an indemnification in place, how does it work in practice? If a woman takes a case and a sum is agreed, who makes the payment?

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

Michael McGrath: Mr. Breen appears to be saying that where there is an indemnity and it is accepted that a case falls within the indemnity, the working through of the case is a matter between the woman, her legal representatives and the US laboratory.

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

Michael McGrath: Where a sum is agreed or an award is made, the payout is from the US laboratory or the independent laboratory.

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

Michael McGrath: I have a big problem with that approach because these are women who had a smear test done in Ireland under the cervical cancer screening programme. Their samples were examined and misread, be it in Ireland or abroad, and they are being left to their own devices to take on an independent laboratory.

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

Michael McGrath: Is that not the whole purpose of indemnification? If the State is indemnified by the independent laboratory, it can make the payout efficiently.

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

Michael McGrath: As such, the HSE being indemnified means it is washing its hands of the entire issue. That is the effect. The State is passing the matter on.

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

Michael McGrath: Indemnification is of no comfort to the women or their surviving partners or widowers. It is of comfort to the State because the State is protected, but the people who are directly affected are left to their own devices and must take on an international third-party independent laboratory in a legal challenge.