Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Now that the issue has been raised by the Committee of Public Accounts, some people feel the Committee of Public Accounts should not be doing the work of the Committee of Public Accounts. The letter from the State Claims Agency is headed and refers to the work of the committee. The subject was matters related to the State Claims Agency, management of legal costs, open disclosure, and the implications for CervicalCheck revelations. Also covered were the 2016 financial statements of the State Claims Agency and the 2016 financial statements of the HSE. The Deputy will know that, over recent months, we have had detailed correspondence from the HSE and State Claims Agency regarding the management of medical negligence issues. That issue, which we have flagged, will be considered by this committee again. The cervical screening issue that blew up in the public arena was an example of the issue we had been dealing with all along. It is not the issue per se.