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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I am sorry about that. Yes, there is funding this year for HPV testing. It was allocated in budget 2019. Mr. McCallion and Dr. Doherty will have told the committee last week that they are working to come up with a definitive timeline. We are working towards the fourth quarter of 2019, which will be challenging. There are a couple of moving parts involved, the big one being the tender....
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Without being smart or dismissive, because we all know what happened, money was allocated last year as well. The money is allocated to deliver it this year.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: That is correct.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Yes, I do. We have not been able to discuss this previously because we have been in negotiations with GPs. We had considerable success in securing a large investment pot for general practice. GPs will rightly say that some of it is giving back the money they lost during the difficult years, and there is no doubt about that, but it is still a good deal above that at €210 million....
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: They are decisions for the Government to make collectively on the recommendation of the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. The Government has not taken a decision in that regard so it would be imprudent of me to speculate, but I expect that the Government will adopt a common-sense approach like we tried to adopt this year. However, these are decisions for the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and he will...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I can. These four streams are all areas where Sláintecare is pivoted. Basically, we are asking, rather than telling from the top down, what people should be doing in the local health organisation. We are asking hospitals, community health organisations and voluntary organisations to tell us what they believe they can do. People tell me as we go around the country all the time: "I...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: No. It is fair to say the fourth stream is probably more applicable to other organisations but a voluntary organisation can apply under any of the streams. The fourth is nearly non-HSE specific but non-HSE people are not ruled out for the other three.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I answered some of the question previously but I welcome the chance to answer it again. I am somewhat uneasy with other people speaking or suggesting that they are speaking for my chief medical officer. The chief medical officer in the Department and I are ad idemon this, as are my officials. Deputy Chambers does not have to take my word for it. My Department at official level, not me,...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Deputy Donnelly went on the Drivetime radio show and reversed his position and said he would be voting to remove Mr. O'Brien, an unprecedented move.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Maybe it was a couple of days later but that is how the Deputy was viewing the director general of the HSE.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Fianna Fáil had no confidence in him.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I am not sure who is actually asking questions here but I am just pointing out-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I am pointing out that the Deputy wanted Mr. O'Brien to resign from his job in respect of the CervicalCheck debacle.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: There is not a thing going on. It is just that there has been lots of misinformation put out in recent days.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I am sure the Deputy does, for different reasons. I do not recall Mr. O'Brien having a conversation with me. That is not to say that he did not. We had many conversations. The reality of the situation is that I take my medical advice from the chief medical officer, who is a doctor. I had lost confidence in the management of CervicalCheck. I do not wish to speak for Deputy Lisa Chambers...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: The HSE stopped it two months later. I conveyed my decision to the HSE and it said women had already booked in and asked to allow them to have those appointments.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: Sure.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019) Simon Harris: I do.