Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

It is in answer to the Deputy's question. There is a significant trawl under way of the entirety of the records of the Department on the full gamut of the issues raised. The trawl is very significant and being undertaken in parallel with the response to the incident. There are people with expertise and knowledge in this area in the Department who have been working absolutely flat out since the issue arose. The senior incident management team is putting in place all of the necessary responses. The memos were not sitting on people's desks. They are from 2016. They would have come to light in the comprehensive trawl process I have under way. When I sat in at the committee-----