Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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It did not come up and did not feature in the assessment. This once-off incident of INAB applying accreditation retrospectively did not come up in the assessment by the European boss. We did not know at that stage. Has INAB reported this to the European body in light of this? Is that normal practice? From the opening statement, it seems this is a bit of a mess. Would INAB go to its European counterparts and say it made a bags of this and how could it learn from it? Has INAB evaluated how this happened?