Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
9:00 am
Dr. Peter McKenna:
I think the difficulty is in distinguishing what is considered "an acceptable rate of failure" from what is an unacceptable rate of failure. Where women are being compensated, on the look-back it is considered that, possibly, there was no reason this should not have been noted or the number of times in which it was overlooked was unacceptable.
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