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

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

-----without having it in front of me. That number, in the context of 3 million cervical smear tests and 1.12 million women participating in the programme, based on what we know of the reliability and efficacy of population-based screening and as difficult and as harrowing as it is for all of the individuals concerned, is not a number that would raise fundamental concerns about the screening programme.