Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme

9:00 am

Photo of Bríd SmithBríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

He will name them and we will be able to clearly see whether what Dr. Gibbons said in 2008 was correct, namely, that outsourcing would lead to an increased number of false negative results in ten years' time. If that is not the case, why did CPL settle the case with Vicky Phelan for €2.5 million? Why would it do that? Why would it say, "here is €2.5 million but there is no issue here with us having poor quality testing"? Our contention is that the outsourcing has delivered poor-quality services in cervical screening for women.

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