Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 329: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the hospitals, apart from Portlaoise Hospital, that are being investigated by her Department or another agency, in relation to failures to diagnose cases of cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11667/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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My Department has been informed of a number of investigations and reviews which are currently being or have recently been undertaken by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) and the Health Service Executive (HSE) into specific cases involving cancer services provided by the HSE. These involve the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, Cork University Hospital, Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, University College Hospital Galway, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. Breast cancer services provided by Barrington's private hospital in Limerick were also the subject of a review which was conducted at my request, by an independent review team chaired by Dr. Henrietta Campbell.

The HSE is in the process of developing an incident reporting system which will involve compiling a list of all serious incident reviews being undertaken by the HSE. This will identify further investigations by the HSE some of which may be connected to cancer services. While well advanced, the work on this system is still on-going.