Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

In the light of what the Deputy stated and what she went through, it might be of interest to her to know that 16,200 women were given anti-D. Those women were tested and it was found that 1,000 of them had hepatitis C. That was the scale of the issue.