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

Dr. Stephanie O'Keeffe:

"None" is not the answer. My understanding is that there were women who would reach out directly to the CervicalCheck programme. The Deputy will see in a couple of the memos that when diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer, some women reach out to the CervicalCheck programme before the audit has even commenced and the programme will tell them that this audit will be conducted and the information can be given. That is within the briefing notes at the time. I cannot tell Deputy Cullinane exactly how many women Professor Flannelly spoke to because she is not here to give that evidence.