Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I get the impression that the Deputy is happy for us to come back on the other matters so I will get a note for the committee on e-health spending. We will ask the HSE to respond directly on the paediatric services in respect of electives and beds. In respect of the cervical screening issue, I will seek an urgent update from HIQA as to how soon the HTA for HPV for boys will be done. I have already answered about the HPV testing. I am as eager as the Deputy is to get that in quickly.

I heard some of the State Claims Agency's evidence to the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach yesterday. I will listen to its evidence before the Committee of Public Accounts tomorrow. It seems that the State Claims Agency believed - and I have no reason to doubt it as I presume it is telling the truth because why would it not tell the truth? - that it had all been disclosed to women. The agency seemed to be as shocked as everybody else. I doubt that this is just confined to health. The idea of the State Claims Agency, which has delegated functions but is somewhat out there as an orbit, is something at which we need to look. I appreciate that the Deputy acknowledges that I did not know. I am with the Deputy that we should not rest until we establish this answer. If the Deputy's assertion is that it was known that National Cancer Registry Ireland could not transfer cases to CervicalCheck for many years-----