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

Mr. John Gleeson:

We work through a channel of communications. We get in cases. There was an element relating to the HSE. There was an element in respect of the reading the test. I was informed by the State Claims Agency we had co-defendants, a named laboratory. The element against the HSE, which was subsequently struck out, was how long it took us to disclose and not that we did not disclose. We have acknowledged there was a delay in the outcome of a review we conducted-----

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