Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

Dr. McKenna has also stated there may be features. We do not go into this level of detail of clinical and personal issues in individual cases, but there may be an issue above and beyond the non-disclosure in terms of clinical management, of which I was not aware. The Deputy is quite right, that there is a sequence, but we need to be careful not to get to the end before we work through all of the issues with the State Claims Agency. We have one case and it was last week. We have to stand back, consider and assess it and then come to conclusions. Doing it in the rapid way that might across the floor here could lead to us ending up in a place where none of us would want to be.