Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I feel like writing to the European body and asking if it has looked on the lads in Ireland as something dodgy, or at least not 100% right, is going on if they can retrospectively accredit a company. If it happened every day, I could see that it is done that way but we are talking about one fellow in Salford. Why would the accreditation body act in this way? I have gone at this every way and I cannot understand why the box was ticked. Before I came, somebody asked for all correspondence between INAB, the Department of Health, CervicalCheck, MedLab and anybody else involved. This was anything to do with the fellow in Salford and the correspondence should include emails, text messages and whatever is available.

We dealt with quality assurance at our previous meeting, which before the recess. INAB was doing quality assessment of laboratories but it did not notice that slides were going elsewhere. Did anybody in this room go on such a visit? Dr. Doherty was on such a visit. Was it recently?

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