Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 May 2018
Public Accounts Committee
State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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Let me make a quick point for the purposes of clarification. I do not think it is fair for the director general to leave it at that. In the circular discretion was given to GPs. They were given discretion to decide whether they should communicate the results; therefore, it is not correct to say the HSE, or the body, did not take a decision not to inform the women. Discretion was given to GPs, as Mr. O'Brien knows.