Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE

9:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

We get involved only when we receive either a letter of claim or a personal injury summons. In those cases, if it is a misread smear we immediately seek an indemnity from the laboratory, as we would in any case where we believe another party has a liability. When there is a contractual document in place between the screening service and the laboratory concerned, as was referred to this morning, CervicalCheck does that as a matter of course. It is set out in the contractual documentation that they need to know immediately if a claim is being made.

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