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:
If there were a pathologist here, he or she would explain to the Deputy that it is possible for a test to appear normal and yet for there to subsequently be a finding of cancer leading to a review of that slide which can lead to a changed view. This is well understood in the literature of cervical cytology, which has a rate of accuracy well short of 100%.