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- 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.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Now the Minister has two and a half minutes remaining, one minute after you interrupted me.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on, a minute is going begging. I will-----
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said today that failure to tell the 167 women would not have changed their outcomes. That is true because they had already been diagnosed with cancer. Had that disclosure happened then, the storm we are having now would have happened then prompting the changes and alerts about the possible problems with the tests. In fact, it may have saved other lives and prompted earlier...
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the Deputy has.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On Deputy Bríd Smith's question, the Minister was not around in 2008. However, he has direct responsibility for the concerns that were flagged by Dr. David Gibbons and Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith and other scientists. They went as far as resigning from the quality assurance committee over this issue. That is not insignificant. They were so concerned about the inferiority of the testing...