Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed)
5:00 pm
Ms Vicky Phelan:
The reason I ask is because my audit was carried out in October 2014. What happened between then and March 2016, if that triggered this legal wrangling, up to July? What happened in that intervening period? I know that Gráinne Flannelly mentioned they were trying to come up with a communications strategy for the clinicians but did it take that long, between October 2014 and March 2016 when they were stopped in their tracks with this legal wrangling, for that to happen?