Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation

9:00 am

Mr. Damien McCallion:

We put some of the immediate things in place to ensure there is clarity. There are subsequent pieces that Dr. Scally identified and I have touched on one or two of them earlier. I will give the Deputy some examples as an illustration. We had identified ourselves a need for a cytopathology lead within the programme. We put a job description together and advertised for that. Dr. Scally also had a recommendation along the same lines. We would have concurred with him on that and we are currently trying to recruit someone. We were unsuccessful in finding someone in Ireland and are trying to recruit internationally to get someone into that role. There are a range of roles that Dr. Scally has identified and we will further strengthen governance through the recommendations he has proposed on these matters.

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