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:

No, and the shocking thing about all of this - and it probably answers the question Catherine asked about the confidentiality clause - is that I think the laboratory's barristers and solicitors, not the State Claims Agency because it seems to have been led and said by the laboratory, to be honest, in my case, were hoping they were going to get a sick woman-----