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

Mr. Stephen Teap:

Deputy Deering raised two questions about the people that are in key positions. He asked if they should be left to answer the questions. I think they have clearly proven time and time again that they are incapable of passing on information, currently, with regard to questions they are being asked. What I was saying was that they should be removed, and we just need to get the answers through investigations. However, I would not let them go too far. They still face questions that need to be answered.

With regard to support services and whether we have done enough, I think that as long as we can implement everything that was said last week, we will have done enough in the short term.