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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I submitted the exact same question, word for word, as Deputy Martin, which appeared on the Question Paper, and it was refused by the Taoiseach's Department. I contacted the Ceann Comhairle's office which told me it was the Taoiseach's Department that would not allow exactly the same question with exactly the same wording on the paper, and there was back and forth communication on that. A...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolutely unacceptable. The rules are the rules, and they apply to one and all.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is bizarre.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just saying it is bizarre.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Taoiseach yesterday whether he and the European Union should condemn the shooting of what is now a total of 44 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza in recent weeks by the Israeli forces. I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach condemned it, but really what I want to ask in the context of Europe, Donald Tusk and our role in Europe generally is whether we can move beyond the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which communications and media mergers are discussed; and when it last met. [18889/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many issues arising from the recent controversy surrounding INM, including the lobbying of the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, and the data breach involving journalists' and barristers' emails. Another issue which to my mind is the most important is the lack of media plurality in this country. The hallmark of any meaningful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On foot of comments made by Deputy Donnelly yesterday, I want to clarify a point about the 1,482 women. As well as the additional 1,500 women who had cancer diagnoses - and the pretty frightening implications given that 208 women's false negative results missed their cancer - of the original 1,482 only some 400 of those women were included in the audit. Is this correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the witness be as brief as possible because I have a very short time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What flags?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To put it another way, what about the other 1,082?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the time, if Mr. Gleeson allows me to hone my question, is there no possibility that those 1,082 cases not included in the review had false negatives and were victims of the same errors as the 400?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will have to study the witness's answer afterwards because it contained a lot of detail. I now return to the testing and warnings. When Dr. David Gibbons, Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith and others made their warnings and indicated their fears on the consequences of outsourcing, it was not mere speculation. They had evidence, namely, that the positive rate coming from US laboratories, because of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. O'Brien is saying that the detection rate improved with the new contract. Can he say that definitively?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One factor suggested for the inferior detection rate and the quality of the screening was that readers in the United States were reading 80 to 90 tests daily, whereas the NHS had a maximum of 50 that readers were allowed to examine. Here in Ireland the figure was more like 30 to 35 slides. I would have thought that if a reader is looking at 90 slides each day, the possibility of making...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the readers and the number of readings being done?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it would cost to award medical cards to persons with a recognised disability who do not qualify due to means; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19140/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Data (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to award travel passes to persons who do not qualify due to means; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19139/18]

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all agree with that.