Dr. Gabriel Scally:

I am happy to respond to some of the questions in detail in writing. Considering the budgetary profile of CervicalCheck over the years, there is no doubt that its financial management was not satisfactory. Money was removed from CervicalCheck and moved elsewhere and it is very difficult to see why.

The absence of someone being in charge of CervicalCheck and a champion for it is of note in the overall matter, as Deputy O’Connell correctly pointed out. I have previously commented on that.

On the quality assurance, QA, subgroups, the reference on page 30 is to the QA committee of CervicalCheck, which had subgroups looking at these issues. My point was that one would expect that it would have had some engagement with the development of the review, the audit and its seven iterations, but it did not. I engaged with members of that committee who were very surprised that all this had been going on elsewhere-----