Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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843. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) finished their work for his Department. [11506/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Government accepted all 50 recommendations made in Dr Scally's Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Programme, which was published on 12 September 2018.

An implementation plan was published in December 2018 on the Department of Health website. The Minister for Health requested Dr Scally to undertake an independent review of the Implementation Plan. The Implementation Plan was revised to take account of further formal observations submitted by Dr Gabriel Scally. A further revision of the Implementation Plan took place to encompass two further recommendations identified by Dr Scally in the Supplementary Report, which was approved in June 2019. 170 actions, across 58 recommendations, are in the final Implementation Plan, with actions across the Department of Health, the HSE and the National Cancer Registry of Ireland (NCRI).

Quarterly progress reports on implementation have been carried out by the Department of Health since Q1 2019. They are published on the Department’s website. That reporting continues with the Q4 2020 report published recently.

As of the end of 2020, there were 148 of 170 actions, arising from the 58 recommendations, completed.

Dr Scally was requested to undertake a further implementation review, and this took place in late 2019. The report of this Review of the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck was received by the Department in April 2020. It was published on the Department’s website in December 2020. In this review report, Dr Scally says that substantial progress has been made, the vast majority of actions were on track or were completed, and he is satisfied with the approach and structures in place for implementation.

The Department of Health engages on an ongoing basis with the HSE and the National Cancer Registry of Ireland as part of the oversight of the implementation of the remaining recommendations and actions. The CervicalCheck Steering Committee, chaired by Professor Anne Scott, will also have a role in oversight of the implementation of the remaining recommendations.

Dr Scally suggested, in his second review report, that he “conduct one final progress review at a suitable point sometime after the coronavirus crisis has abated”.

I am supportive of this and will raise it with the CervicalCheck Steering Committee at the appropriate time.

In April 2020, the Department of Health commissioned Crowe, a management consultancy firm, to provide an evidence review and to support the Independent Patient Safety Council to make recommendations for a Policy Framework for Open Disclosure in Healthcare in Ireland. Crowe and their consultancy team submitted the report “Evidence to Support the Independent Patient Safety Council for the Development of Recommendations on a National Policy Framework for Open Disclosure in Healthcare in Ireland” to the Department of Health in January 2021.

Dr Gabriel Scally was a member of the Crowe Consultancy team that worked on this report. This report will be published on the Department of Health website. Crowe completed their work on this project with the Department in February 2021.

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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844. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the contractual payment of a person (details supplied) was paid. [11507/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The table below sets out the payments made to Gabriel Scally Consultants.