Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Why did it start then? Had it anything to do with the fact that one of the two women, who took legal cases before they unfortunately passed away, Lord rest them, had been told about her situation in respect of a number of smears taken some years previously? She had been notified just prior to that date.

Was there any correlation between the fact that she had just been told and this document and the process of communicating it upwards or across? Subsequently the case went legal in April and the lady, unfortunately, passed away in June. I have spoken to members of her family. They are going through a legal process, which is not very nice and is contrary to some other evidence we have heard in respect of the State Claims Agency. I want to know because the family wants to know whether there is any correlation in that case which is actually referenced in the document. It references one case which, I presume, is this one. The lady also did not make the meeting on 3 March because she was too sick to attend. She was never able to have the meeting with CervicalCheck.

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