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Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: The budget is introduced in October.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (10 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: 305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in processing an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30408/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Staff (10 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: 307. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants that sought to be included under the disability percentage programme in terms of recruitment in the public service in respect of a competition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30431/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management Regulations (10 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: 745. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the section in the legislation which gives powers to local authorities to demand proof from residents that they are using an authorised waste disposal service or have another method in place for dealing with their waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30289/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (10 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: 869. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the pension for persons that reach 67 years of age will be introduced; the arrangements in place for persons that leave work prior to 67 years of age and are on jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance prior to that; the requirements for this period of payment before the State pension (contributory) comes into...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (10 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: 870. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding PRSI contributions by self-employed persons under class S in the year they reach 66 years of age (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30435/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (10 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: 917. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses purchased by a local authority (details supplied); the funding made available to the local authority in 2018; the amount unspent in the period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30275/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Appointments to State Boards (10 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: 957. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to hold elections for appointment to the board of Údarás na Gaeltachta; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30265/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Before we commence our business, Deputy Cullinane wants to raise a point of order.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Ruth Foley, deputy director of audit. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pat Deering. We are dealing with the Department of Health and the HSE under the Department of Health appropriation accounts, Vote 38 for 2016 and the HSE financial statements 2017....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: We made a request last week for specific individuals. One is on certified sick leave and the other will come on another date. Correspondence No. 1439provides follow up information from the HSE in respect of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. Correspondence Nos. 1440 and 1441 are from an individual making inquiries about HSE circulars not circulated or implemented and HSE employees...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: For this session we are joined by the HSE director general, Mr. John Connaghan; Dr. Peter McKenna, acting clinical director of CervicalCheck; Mr. Ray Mitchell; and from the Department of Health, we are joined by Mr Jim Breslin, Secretary General and Ms Tracey Conroy, assistant secretary, acute hospitals division. I remind members, witness and those in the Public Gallery to switch off their...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Time is tight and I am being generous, so the hour will only start after I have finished my bit, in fairness to the other members. That flow chart, which is now up on the screen, does not answer the question. It starts talking about the GP surgery and the whole way along, the forms going out and coming back. All we want to know is when the laboratories that were contracted by the HSE to...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: We do not need to know of the process before that.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is exactly my point. For those who cannot see the chart, it details that women participating in cervical screening go to the general practitioner, GP, clinics and the laboratory has a collection system involving a pre-addressed envelope being sent to the laboratory for processing. The laboratory reports are then sent to the GPs or clinics. Are the witnesses saying that when the work...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are discussing the misdiagnoses which were marked as normal and in which cases the results do not correspond with the conclusion. Are the witnesses stating that smears went from a doctor to the laboratory and back and CervicalCheck had no medical involvement in the results?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Why did the senior people in the HSE not have a quality assurance mechanism in place to verify from the point of view of the HSE and CervicalCheck that the work carried out by the contractors was valid? Nobody in a public organisation for which a contractor is doing a job accepts that the work is done satisfactorily on the basis of the contractor sending back a report. Rather, the results...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Should CervicalCheck have a role in checking the results that come back from contracted laboratories?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am asking about individual cases. I do not wish to waste time. The witnesses were asked a very specific question. I am dealing solely with a question asked on the previous occasion the witnesses were before the committee and also submitted in writing. The witnesses stated that it is possible that no medical staff may be involved in the process. The committee asked for the sample of...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: The patient results sent to CervicalCheck are not usually checked by a medical professional in the HSE, which writes the cheque for the work to be done on behalf of the individual patients. That is my understanding of the situation and it is part of the problem.