David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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1190. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fully implement the recommendations of the Scally report and, specifically, actions and time frames to deliver it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15488/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The implementation plan for the recommendations of the Scally inquiry was approved by Government on 11 December 2018. The implementation plan contains 170 actions. At the end of Q1 2020, 137 of the 170 identified actions were completed.

I fully support the full implementation of the recommendations of Dr Scally and am committed to publishing a quarterly progress report against the recommendations on the Department of Health website. There has been significant progress by all parties to date and my Department engages on an ongoing basis with the HSE and the National Cancer Registry to oversee implementation of the recommendations.

Given the challenges that have arisen due to the COVID-19 pandemic some of the remaining work on the implementation of the recommendations has not been progressed. The HSE are currently developing capacity planning for the ongoing delivery of COVID-19 and non COVID-19 care and services side by side. Work on implementing the remaining recommendations will be re-prioritised in line with this process.