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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Jan O'Sullivan.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I am coming to that now. I join with members in expressing deep concern and sympathy to all the ladies involved in this situation. The picture is unfolding every day and we do not know what is going to happen next week. I met some ladies last night and they have told me that last weekend they were afraid of every unrecognised number that rang on their phones in case it was a doctor or...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will specifically add that question. The letter continued to quote chapter and verse about open disclosure, which was launched in 2008. On 8 February, this committee received a letter, reference No. PAC 32-1-707, which was about open disclosure, plus a 96-page document on open disclosure, pilot schemes, a review of pilot schemes and training. It is not happening yet, ten years on. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I was unaware of that. A date has been set.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: I wish to advise Deputy Cullinane that I have just been informed that this morning the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has invited the State Claims Agency to appear before it next Tuesday.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes, a meeting is on our work programme in any event.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. I call Deputy Cullinane.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Other committees will do other work.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The Joint Committee on Health will also work on the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Other committee will work on the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We had already pre-scheduled the State Claims Agency to come in with the HSE.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: The agency has been on our work programme from weeks ago. They were not scheduled to come in until July because the agency's annual accounts for 2017 will not be ready until June. We had already planned to bring them here in July to discuss the sum of €2.6 billion for starters, among other things. How do Deputies wish to proceed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Yesterday, I tried to find out the budget for CervicalCheck. The national screening programme covers CervicalCheck, BreastCheck and BowelScreen programmes and I think the figure is about €60 million. I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to help me because I could not find the figure anywhere.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We want to invite the HSE and State Claims Agency to a joint meeting to discuss these issues. We will try to aim for next Thursday, probably in the afternoon. Who are we meeting in the morning?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: We will try to slot in a meeting as quickly as possible. We will liaise with the secretariat this afternoon to get a date.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: In terms of the State Claims Agency, the vast majority of the work relates to clinical negligence cases of which CervicalCheck is a component.