Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not and I would have taken those interpretations from them. It is explicit in those letters not to tell them and to put a note in their file. That is what it says. It was sent to Dr. Holohan and it did not raise any flags or alarms, while at the same time the minutes of his meetings record that work was under way by the State Claims Agency to extend the architecture of the national incident management system to facilitate logging of incident cases from the screening programme. It is clear there were issues and then these letters come across his desk saying that there are issues but not to tell the women, whatever he does.

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