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- 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.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all agree with the screening programme.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all know the screening programme saves lives. Let us be absolutely clear: we believe people should avail of that screening programme. Furthermore, anyone who is concerned should immediately seek to be screened. There is no question about that. The issue at stake – to be honest, the Minister knows this – is whether the standard of that screening system was inferior as a...
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the politicians who made this decision were wrong, they are accountable for what is happening. If that contributed to the scandal that has now unfolded, they are accountable. Does the Minister agree with that? That is an important question. Is it not strange? Can the Minister explain this to me? The then Opposition spokesperson, James Reilly, flagged these concerns in the...
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My time is not up yet.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Having raised those concerns and echoed those concerns in 2008, why did Fine Gael not then immediately look into it-----
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----when it got into power to see if Sam Coulter-Smith-----
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My time is not up.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not. He has two and a half minutes at the end.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has two and a half minutes at the end.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not in the Order.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He has still two and a half or three minutes left.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is just Fine Gael messing around in the Chair.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is Fine Gael messing around in the Chair. That is outrageous.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What you have done is outrageous, Acting Chairman. You have just cut across my time.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is rubbish. You are shouting us down when serious questions are being asked.