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:

That is where issues should get managed. There was a potential risk that there could be adverse publicity arising from that and in a situation where that were to develop into a real, present issue, the early warning approach between the Department and CervicalCheck, would have allowed for that to come to the surface and for us all to be advised of what the response would be on that. There are countless risks within a health service the size of the one we have that may or may not come to pass. There are strategies put in place to manage those and early warnings to see if they come to fruition. It is at that point, as a risk actually becomes present, that the response has to be escalated. We cannot-----