Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

No, I do not. Mediation is dependent upon two parties which means we, the State or the laboratories as defendants in the context of CervicalCheck, and plaintiffs, that is, lawyers, must enter into that process. There has been a good measure of success. For example, if we look at the 41 cases concluded on CervicalCheck, mediation was offered in 28 cases and took place in 23 of them. Quite clearly, it was a good process and much better than a court judgment or women having to give evidence in court.