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
Dr. Tony Holohan:
I outlined the reasons why I disagree earlier and I am happy to say it again. My understanding of screening programmes at a European level - and I understand this from my own knowledge - is that open disclosure policies, regrettably, are not well developed. We have evidence that our screening programme was attempting to put an arrangement in place to look back at areas of the programmes where audit was not standard and to feed back that information. We know that it did not work.
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