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 spoke to the group on that yesterday. I have also said that we will write out to every single person who has requested records but that is the group of people who will ultimately request slides. The process a woman will go through will involve, first, getting her records in order to review them and to see whether looking at her slides is warranted. What we have done there, as I have said, is to ask that client services write to everyone-----