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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Failure at that level is critically important. We are told two sets of eyes look at these. In Vicky Phelan's case, there were two separate smear tests. That is a failure rate of 400%. Will the witnesses comment on whether or not there was a closed mind, by simply looking at this from a statistical perspective rather than delving deeper? There seems to have been a difference between one lab and some of the others with regard to the extent of the failures. Will the witnesses comment on that first?