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- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely true.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is they do not know by whom they are employed.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, announced over the weekend that she intended to launch a campaign on the issue of bogus self-employment. That is welcome, although is somewhat late in the day, given that people have been protesting about this issue for years. Will the Minister's campaign include other forms of precarious and insecure...
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that we think those matters, the plan of action set out by the Government, should be discussed and scrutinised in this House. We are certainly not happy with it. I want to register that last week in the all-party Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health we asked Mr. Tony O'Brien direct questions about figures on the accuracy and detection of smear tests in the different labs. It...
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but there are certain facts that should be in the public domain now because Mr. Tony O'Brien told us he would give them to us.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He has not given them to us and that is why we want a debate.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not happy with the Order because these questions are not being answered.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever about the technical judgment and whether this issue can be raised by way of an amendment, we object to it and we expressed dissatisfaction with the decisions that were made following the meeting last week of different parties. Our delegate, Deputy Bríd Smith, indicated that she was unhappy that the course that was proposed to deal with cervical-----
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Breen and Ms Foley for being here today. Do all of the cases of women who had false negative results and who subsequently developed cancer - the nine cases pending and the one which the agency understands has yet to be filed - involve CPL?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The American laboratory. The people who demanded a gagging order for Vicky Phelan-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are both of those laboratories American?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All the cases of misreading that have resulted in women learning that abnormalities should have been discovered and who subsequently developed cancer, of which the State Claims Agency has knowledge, involve American laboratories. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There were no other cases settled by the agency other than those nine and Vicky Phelan's case. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a very damning fact which should have come out before now and it says it all. There are no cases involving the Coombe Hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Coombe hospital. We have been informed by the Government-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there another group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to get clarification on something. This is not the agency's direct concern but one of the big issues at stake here is whether there were differences in the detection rates of the outsourced American laboratories and the Irish laboratories that were testing the samples, as warned about by Sam Coulter Smith and the quality assurance people in the HSE who resigned in 2008. What Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: None of them is from the Coombe.