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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I am certainly not here to deliver any cheap shots to Mr. O'Brien or to anybody else, but I do have a view on Mr. O'Brien's role as the Accounting Officer to this committee and as the director general of the HSE. I will get to that in a few moments. That is my job. Mr. O'Brien has a job to do as director general of the HSE. As public representatives it is our job to hold him to account. That is why we are here and that is what we will do. That is what I will do. I will do my job. My first question for Mr. O'Brien is; what is the difference between a false negative test result and an incorrect reading of a smear test?