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Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I disagree. Three options were given for informing women and I will return to these. There was certainly no intention to inform the families of women who had passed away. That is explicit in the documentation we have and it was attached to their medical files. In terms of other women, the approach was to inform them of the audit if it was considered appropriate, to do so at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: We asked for it.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Copies should be provided to everyone, to save them from printing it.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: My recollection, when the question was asked, is that I brought it up and asked what was the nature of it. The information was given that the four of them are claims of misdiagnosis. That will be on the transcripts.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I do not want to do the work of the scoping inquiry. It has a job to do. I will ask a couple of questions. We know there were six memos. The first was in February and the last was in October. The one in February talks about the laboratories looking at legal advice and the four steps. I can understand the rationale behind all of those steps when it is put in the context of what was...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: We now know that there was a breakdown in that. Clinicians did not inform women. Dr. Holohan and Dr. O'Keeffe said that they did not become aware of this until recent weeks, when this all came out after Vicky Phelan's case. Somebody must have been aware in those intervening periods where there was an understanding that all of the women would be informed through their clinicians. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Who informed Dr. McKenna of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is in the notes we have. The first that anyone in this room, in the HSE, CervicalCheck or the Department, became aware was in July 2017. From October to July, there was no knowledge of any issues with clinicians not relaying that information.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: What did the witnesses do with that information?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: That would have been Professor Gráinne Flannelly. Then it comes back to CervicalCheck. Was that the first time that Mr. Gleeson was aware of an issue with clinicians not informing their patients?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: When did Mr. Gleeson become aware?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: So between October and July, Mr. Gleeson would have been aware that there were some issues but that it was not a major issue and it was not until July, when he got the correspondence from Limerick, that he realised it was a major issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: In July 2017, was it not escalated further up the line that there was a major issue?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: That was in relation to how many women? Was it three women?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Yes, which was three as far as I am aware.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: That was because it was in the correspondence we just received. It states there were three women and that he gave an undertaking, reluctantly from my reading of it, to engage with those three women. I wonder how, in July 2017, the issue of three women became a major issue. How did three women with one consultant escalate to almost 80% of women not being informed? At what stage did people...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: That still does not answer-----

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: We now know that approximately 80% of women were not informed through their clinicians.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: We have been told that in July 2017 a concern was raised by one consultant in Limerick. I stand corrected, but the information we received less than two hours ago states that was with regard to three women. I am open to correction but, as I said, I just read it the same as Deputy Kelly did. It is my understanding that it is in relation to three women. The consultant agreed reluctantly to...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: When did people in this room become aware it was widespread and that up to 80% of women had not been informed through their clinicians?