Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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74. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department exchanged speaking notes in relation to the CervicalCheck delayed smear test results scandal with the Office of the Taoiseach on 27 March 2019; and if his attention was drawn to the speaking notes or other speaking notes on the crisis before 10 July 2019. [41157/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department regularly provides speaking points to the Department of An Taoiseach on a range of issues. This is normal practice for Government departments.

To clarify, the email in question does not concern the CervicalCheck IT issue which emerged in July this year and which related to tests undertaken at the Quest Diagnostics laboratory in Chantilly. As I have stated previously, and as is made clear in the MacCraith Report, my Department received a report in relation to this issue on the 10th of July and the first briefing on this issue was provided to me later that day.