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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Somebody mentioned a fivefold or sixfold increase in referral to colposcopy. I imagine there is a certain amount of stress among general practitioners and doctors to make sure that nothing is missed. Has work been done to develop care pathways for primary care practitioners so that we do not end up with a sixfold increase in unnecessary colposcopy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is there a strategic programme here or is it ad hoc?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am a little uncomfortable with this new quality assurance, QA, lead, a consultant-level position. We had many QA people already in cervical services. Do they still exist?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I got that. We had a QA team and none of them were consultants. What were they? Were they doctors or from industry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Could I have a breakdown of the QA people from before? Were they doctors, pharmacists or laboratory people? We had no consultant-level pathologist ever assessing the contracts to see if they were the right standard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Dr. Scally was very clear. From memory, I think it was page 52 of the report. A box on one of those pages shows that the contract was for ISO accreditation. A particular laboratory said not to mind the ISO and that the American college of whoever says it is doing everything fine. Contracts have been awarded and been operational and these laboratories have been looking at smears. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We were taking the standards from the NHS and applying them to the contracts that we were giving to other countries. When this person was comparing it with what the standard was supposed to be, he or she missed that Quest Laboratories did not have the accreditation that the contract stated it should have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Nobody looked at that before Dr. Scally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: From memory, how many quality assurance people were working on CervicalCheck? Was it six, ten or 12?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It is more like a canyon rather than a gap not to have somebody who is an expert on this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We had a great rate with the girls, we went back and then we came up again. Are we mitigating against the same thing happening again?

Written Answers — Department of Health: School Equipment (12 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 402. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Number 129 of 21 November 2018 to the Minister for Education and Skills, the way in which an application can be made through the aids and appliances scheme administered by the HSE regarding computer equipment for a person (details supplied) [6516/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming in. It is refreshing to have 66% women on the committee. We have a nice 50:50 balance in the witnesses today, which is very unusual in the Committee of Public Accounts and in these Houses in general. I will start with the Vote for the Office of the Attorney General. There is a contract for €147,096 for services. I ask for detail on that contract...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I will need to go through the folder to find it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I can understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: With regard to the pool within which the office is fishing in the Irish context, are people getting a fair crack of the whip here? Are we fishing within the one pool? I can understand why there is a limited number of people who can do this but I am trying to ensure there is no advantage to a particular person or group.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is Mr. Moloney saying that when the regular guys retire from the Office of the Attorney General, he can contract them in afterwards?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Would the fish within the pool feel the same as Mr. Moloney does? Would the people on the opposite side who are looking to get this work agree with his statement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: As I know it is Mr. Moloney's first time to appear before the committee, I do not want to give him any great difficulty. There was a contractor, an auditor, who withdrew midway through a process. It states that there was an internal audit function for the office and it was in place in 2017. A contracted provider withdrew from the contract at the end of September 2017. They seem to have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: They were doing the work and they just went on and did something else.