Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to return to a separate issue, and I am not sure if anybody who is here can answer my query. We received a document concerning June 2016. I was looking at it last night. It addresses the total number of cases. We are talking about the first group of 1,500 women. Let us call them group A. These are the women connected to CervicalCheck. When the health service looked back, the group of 209 emerged. The total number was 1,120, and a group of 653 women had cancer. However, in addition to that, the document states that 128 women had cancer diagnosed within three years of a previous negative smear, with a routine recall recommendation. These cases were termed "interval cancers". The figures go up to 2015. Were those audited?

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