Results 1-20 of 32 for cervical speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Minister was asked whether a note on the costs associated with the decision to offer free cervical screening and advice received could be provided. He is talking about free cervical screening, but women are only have the test they were due to have in the future. I am concerned because a large number of women will be screened less in the future. They will be screened three or five years...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Since the cervical cancer issue blew up, the national director of the cervical screening programme, Dr. Gráinne Flannelly, has stepped aside. I have looked at her press release on a few occasions and the phrase used is "step aside". I want to know if Dr. Flannelly is still in the employment of the HSE. If so, she should be here. She cannot say that she is taking her salary and is...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (2 Nov 2005)

Seán Fleming: Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a nationwide cervical cancer screening programme will be in operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31359/05]

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I think at this stage there is just one final point. I want Mr. O'Carroll to clarify something, because we are all a little bit taken aback. People thought there were 3,000 cases of cervical cancer. Is he saying that only 500 have been audited?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The screening programme includes cervical screening, breast screening and bowel screening. What was the fourth one?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Those are the screenings for the public. One goes to one's GP for cervical screening, one has to go somewhere to get breast screening done-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Breen have a figure of other claims about cervical cancer which are not part of the 221?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (12 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: They seem to be doing work on alternative mechanisms, mediation and the cervical cancer issue because of the time issues involved in some of the cases, but why have they not moved to deal with more of that on the other cases?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Seán Fleming: Clearly, people in the HSE were familiar with the cervical cancer issue because it was going before the High Court. Yet, there did not seem to be any communication within the HSE for that to be known at senior level.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...in the service plan. The HSE is down €200 million for the first two months of the year, which was reported last week. The figure will be higher figure as the year goes on. The payments for the cervical check issue must not come out of the patient care budget. The HSE will have to provide additional resources for that otherwise it will be taken from the health services, which...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...should have known about this one. We will have representatives from the Revenue Commissioners before us on 1 November. The following week - on 8 November - we will consider matters related to cervical cancer and thalidomide litigation. We will examine how the State Claims Agency is handling all of these cases. The thalidomide issue is long-standing. On 15 November we will ask the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: In the chart given to the committee which was referred to this morning, the process starts with a national screening programme letter inviting women to participate in free cervical screening. At the bottom, it says a letter advising women of the availability of results and recommendation has also been sent to the GP. Are we saying that in all these cases the GP has something in his or her...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: That is exactly my point. For those who cannot see the chart, it details that women participating in cervical screening go to the general practitioner, GP, clinics and the laboratory has a collection system involving a pre-addressed envelope being sent to the laboratory for processing. The laboratory reports are then sent to the GPs or clinics. Are the witnesses saying that when the work...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: We want that clarified. The public is looking to the Oireachtas, although I know we have Professor Scally's inquiry and we are going to have a commission of investigation. When the cervical cancer issue blew up, the director general of the HSE resigned, Dr. Gráinne Flannelly stepped aside and Charles O'Hanlon, who was the programme manager, has been unavailable. The three senior...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Seán Fleming: On the CervicalCheck issue, I do not understand why everyone is using the word "audit" all day. I would have thought it was very simple. If somebody is diagnosed with cervical cancer, the obvious thing to do would be to look at whatever information is on file in the system about that person. That should include any screening that was done. An audit is not needed. If somebody is...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps Professor Kerri Clough-Gorr could come in with her perspective on the overall national number of cervical cancers. She should speak to the microphone and not mind who is behind it. It is hard not to make eye contact. It is a case of active versus passive registration. The CervicalCheck group does passive registration of cancer. When it is notified, it logs it as a cancer. What it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...Claims Agency is headed and refers to the work of the committee. The subject was matters related to the State Claims Agency, management of legal costs, open disclosure, and the implications for CervicalCheck revelations. Also covered were the 2016 financial statements of the State Claims Agency and the 2016 financial statements of the HSE. The Deputy will know that, over recent months,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...June. We move on to the rest of our correspondence. That was correspondence No. 1338 from the HSE. The next item is correspondence Nos. 1339B, 1340B and 1341B. These are all connected with the cervical cancer issue and corporate risk registers. We will deal with the matter in a moment.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...correspondence. No. 1809B is correspondence received from the Department of Health, providing information notes requested by the committee on the costs associated with the decision to offer free cervical screening; the records retention policy in place, in particular, for procurement-related documents and changes to be made to the policy; and the terms of reference and assessment...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...Purchase Fund and Nursing Homes Ireland on 14 June. No further changes have been made. I will return to discussing the various items of correspondence that have been received in terms of the cervical cancer issue. I will work in reverse. I note that Deputy Darragh O'Brien has indicated. Yesterday, we received a letter from Mr. John Connaghan, director general of the HSE....