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 Gleeson:

They were never going to reconcile in the first place, because symptomatic cancers as distinct from screen-detected cancers are different. If a woman has symptoms, she goes to her doctor and a gynaecologist and is diagnosed with cervical cancer, as distinct from screening which is for women who do not have symptoms.