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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Her question was entirely a procedural question. As the Deputy should be well aware, the procedures of a committee-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: -----are a matter for the committee. If the Deputy has a question for the Chairman of the committee-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: -----that question should surely be addressed to the Chairman.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy should try to be constructive around the issue of climate change and climate action. I understand that she offended the Senators at the committee, which is one of the reasons she found it difficult to get support for her Bill. She does not really want it passed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: As is always the case, the far left does not actually want to solve any problems. They want to politicise problems so that they can get airtime, attention, likes, retweets and all of the rest of it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I advise the Deputy to work harder, to be respectful and polite to colleagues, to try to build support for her Bill, to try to build a coalition for it-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: -----and to work much harder at the Joint Committee on Climate Action on the issue of carbon tax. The truth is that the far left has no interest in climate change. It just wants to do this stuff.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy does not care about the environment, she should stop pretending.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Who is responsible for it? Obviously it is the clinician who made the mistake, carried out the hearing tests and either failed to diagnose or ensure the children and people affected had the proper follow-up. It is not about Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael or Micheál Martin or Simon Harris. I know that the Deputy tries to turn everything into a political attack, but, of course,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: -----or, having diagnosed the hearing loss, did not ensure the patients affected had the appropriate follow-up. The problem was identified internally. The HSE assistant clinical lead for audiology services identified the problem and acted on it. I understand the people who made the mistakes are no longer working for the public health service.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: There are appropriate professional bodies that register people and that can sanction them by striking them off.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy is aware that VAT is quite a complicated tax. It derives not just from the EU VAT directive but also from national legislation. There are different VAT rates for different foods, for example, fresh foods which are, of course, the healthiest to eat. There is also a zero VAT rate for oral medicines, but VAT is applied to injectable medicines because there is value added. VAT is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Given his experience in government, the Deputy will be well aware that very often there are arguments about which VAT rate should be applied to which product or service. The Deputy will recall the debate some years ago on whether a cake was a cake or a biscuit a biscuit, based on the different rates applied. There are often debates about these matters. There has not been a change in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I acknowledge that the people who built and ran CervicalCheck for a period did a good job. I remember the time before CervicalCheck, when women would present much later with a much more advanced disease than they currently do, and how different it was from the UK at the time. CervicalCheck is a good programme. Those who built it, managed it and worked there for a long time did a good job,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: -----that had significant retrospection bias, and they did not share the information about the audit with the women who were affected.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I regret that Deputy Martin did not acknowledge that in his comments because, while they did a good job, they did something very wrong in not disclosing that information to patients. I understand that there were different views about whether the out of cycle test should be offered. Some doctors thought it was a good idea. Others called for it. The Chief Medical Officer, who advises the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I understood they did after the event.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE finalised the report of a lookback paediatric audiology services review for the Mayo-Roscommon area for 2011 to 2012 in June last year. It was shared with all 49 affected families in accordance with open disclosure principles. The report and accompanying documentation sent to families from the HSE included an apology for the failures identified and for the anxiety caused to families...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: All of us in the House will acknowledge and know that cervical cancer is a terrible disease that causes the death of many women and results in life-changing surgery for many others. We also know that cervical screening works and that the number of women who have cervical cancer has fallen for many years as a result of a successful screening programme and the introduction of the HPV vaccine...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Leo Varadkar: That is correct.