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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ...other two subjects first, when we have the benefit of hindsight, we generally are correct in everything. It is a case of 20-20 vision afterwards. However, we should remember one thing about the cervical smear tests. It was not the greatest day in the delivery of services to the women who tried to avail of those services when it transpired that some of them were not told the outcome. At...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...money - did this for us. What recourse exists when the State pays fees to a professional body to act on its behalf in an expert role and that body does not do its job right? We have discussed CervicalCheck and the capacity issue for so long but, again, like the national children's hospital, it is worth remembering where CervicalCheck has come from. I imagine that the Chairman is very...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for her questions. On the issue of cervical cancer, it is something on which we are all united. We can effectively eradicate it. There are many diseases about which we cannot say this, but it is one we can eradicate. I used to refer to the huge progress made in Australia and New Zealand, but now I need only refer to Scotland, a much nearer neighbour. I was only reading...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Simon Harris: ...that gets much criticism for many issues. It has stepped up in promoting vaccination and the national immunisation office has done a good job with powerful patient advocates on the issue of cervical cancer and we think particularly of the late Ms Laura Brennan who did so much. We often hear accusations that we are a nanny state and all this sort of nonsense. This is life and death,...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Simon Harris: ...to be convinced it would have worked but I should have tried to. I do not wish to talk about people who are not here. However, Dr. Gráinne Flannelly has done much good work for screening and tackling cervical cancer. That should never be taken from her or the people who worked in the management of the programme. On this I agree with Deputy Micheál Martin. These people helped...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Michael Harty: ...of their latest smears. They were difficult consultations and if a woman was very uncertain or worried, she would have been given the smear. However, many women just required reassurance that the cervical screening programme was a very effective programme, that it was working properly, and that the issue was around audit and non-disclosure rather than any deficiency in the system, but...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: On the reassurance offered to women in presenting for cervical smear tests, are we satisfied adequate provision has been made to enable us to say, hand on heart, that they will not find themselves stressed out? I know that we have the best intentions, but that is not way things happen. Within reason, can we reassure women that everything has been put in place, that everything that can...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Simon Harris: ...this area in general and the reasons medical negligence cases need to be so adversarial to see if there are better ways to deal with cases. We have seen an element of this in the piece of work done on CervicalCheck and the tribunal legislation we will bring forward, but there is a broader piece of work to be done. I do not disagree with the point made by the Deputy. On how we can...