Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I ran the clock on the others. I have more than three minutes.

I refer to the quality of the results being provided. Letters were issued to women. A total of 46 got them in time and others only received them recently. I have a copy of one. On the left it gives the previous result and, on the right, it is reviewed. I know from talking to people and through the audit which started in 2014 the volume of women who are going from P2 to P9. There have been many conversations in the Oireachtas over the past two weeks about statistics, and I am a member of the Committee of Public Accounts as well. However, this is not just a case of carrying out these tests, the statistical comparison being 70:30 and these women being part of the 30%; this is catastrophic human error. A woman does not simply go from P2 to P9. The witnesses have a huge role in this. Do they believe that once the audit process was being conducted - and Vicky Phelan made it quite clear to us in the other committee that it was quite obvious that she had cancer and that it was human error - that there was a responsibility on the HSE when it saw as part of the process that there was such a movement from one reading to the other, to qualitatively analyse what was happening? That is a critical question.