Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)

9:00 am

Dr. Peter McKenna:

I think the difficulty is in distinguishing what is considered "an acceptable rate of failure" from what is an unacceptable rate of failure. Where women are being compensated, on the look-back it is considered that, possibly, there was no reason this should not have been noted or the number of times in which it was overlooked was unacceptable.