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:
Infallible. The choice was to have a screening programme, one that has since detected 50,000 high-grade abnormalities, leading to early treatment to the probable avoidance of hundreds of cervical cancers and, ultimately, deaths, or not to have it. If one wishes to hold population screening programmes to a test of infallibility, then no country in the world will do them.