Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation

9:00 am

Mr. Damien McCallion:

I asked that each of the records would be reviewed to check the timeframe in which they were worked in, and the 18 month criterion was not used in those. For example, if a woman had symptoms she could have been within a month of diagnosis.