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
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I suggest we are learning a big lesson here, which is that settlement without admission of liability seems to constitute a financial out for the State but it may not represent best practice in terms of avoiding a repetition of the same instance. I have no medical training. From a common sense perspective, we need a policy on it and a demonstrative thing that without admission of liability everyone associated with the case will go through this programme so we are-----
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