Results 16,321-16,340 of 45,736 for speaker:Simon Harris
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: The Deputy did not, for which I thank him. The record will show that it is not what I said.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: The Deputy suggested, accidentally or otherwise, that I had said women had not been let down by the State. They were absolutely let down by the State, 100%-----
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: In the CervicalCheck audit. The facts of the Scally report are evident for all to see and accepted. My bona fides are very clear and understood by those directly affected. That is what is most important to me in that regard. What I have said - it is a statement of medical fact - is that the infection of people by contaminated blood by the State is very different from what occurred owing...
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: I appreciate that.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: Dr. Scally will be before the health committee tomorrow and-----
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: The Deputy is misrepresenting the Scally report. It is grossly irresponsible.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: The Deputy did a few times. What she said was grossly irresponsible.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: The Deputy is misrepresenting Dr. Gabriel Scally's reports. She is presenting herself almost as a cytologist in pursuit of an ideological viewpoint on outsourcing. She is perfectly entitled to her ideological views on outsourcing. She might even be right that it would be better to do things in this country, but she is not right in making the suggestion she has made. She is applying a new...
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: The Deputy will have a chance to ask Dr. Scally tomorrow.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: I respect that.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: That is progress.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: There are many things in Deputy Donnelly's second point that I could reflect on and seek clarity on. It sound pretty sensible to me, and that is something that we can usefully reflect on in advance of Report Stage. On the first point, my understanding of the rules of the High Court now is not that it makes a provisional award but that in making the award, it can factor in risk of...
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: No, it cannot.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: As much as Deputy Kelly, with whom I rarely disagree, thinks that what I am proposing is difficult to do or perhaps not worth doing, I equally think back to the point made by Deputies O'Connell and Durkan. If somebody gets cancer five, ten or 15 years later, it is not necessarily the case that is linked back to a smear test and an audit many years ago, as the Chairman, as a doctor, will...
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: We think that may be legally possible but whether it would be successful is a matter for the court to decide.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: It is my understanding that it would be a new case.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: On a new case.
- Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)
Simon Harris: In fairness, Deputy Bríd Smith raised this point in the Dáil during statements on CervicalCheck and I get the point.