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
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source
The memo we have seen is from March 2016. It is undated and unsigned. Did Dr. Holohan stand over it? It says that there was a risk - not to the lives of the women or their health - that in communicating individual case reports to clinicians the patients would go forward to the media and there would be headlines such as, "Screening did not diagnose my cancer". This was the risk that this memo was zoning in on. It is not focused on the risk to lives or health. Does the witness stand over that?
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