Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Jim Breslin:
That is the core of the Ms Vicky Phelan case. The laboratory insisted or put forward a confidentiality clause but the State Claims Agency did not and argued against that. Ms Phelan - and we all owe her great credit - stuck by her guns and insisted that there would be no confidentiality clause. The State Claims Agency did not seek that clause and I think it will confirm that when it is before the committee next week.