Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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The witness is appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts. I am addressing this point to Mr. Connaghan as well. Assumptions were made that somebody else had acted in a particular way, and we now know that was not a valid assumption. I do not deny that it was arrived at in good faith. However, the assumptions made are the reason the witnesses are here today, and the reason there has been such an outcry about women not being informed. When the witness was dealing with the Vicky Phelan case earlier this year he was operating in good faith at all stages, but-----