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. John Connaghan:

It occurs to me that we, in the Health Service Executive and Department of Health, probably did this to anticipate not just being able to answer the simple question with, "Here are the documents that you want", but also to be able to think smarter around that and think, "Hang about, they also need that to make their job as easy as possible." For example, the committee asked for some documentation and there might well be some associated minutes and we should have the gumption - that is a Scottish word, apparently - to be able to supply what sits around that.