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Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Was it Mr. Breen's impression after that teleconference call that one way or another, all women had been informed?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: What would Mr. Breen say in relation to Mr. Gleeson who is now saying that could not have been the information he gave Mr. Breen because nobody from CervicalCheck would have been aware of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Gleeson is trying to tell me today that when I asked: "Is the person who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed in this room?", the reason he answered "No" was because he could not have told them that because he is now saying that the assumption was the clinicians had informed them.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: However, Mr. Gleeson just heard from the State Claims Agency that the information that it is saying it got from Mr. Gleeson was that all women had been informed.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Gleeson is playing with words now. This is a very serious issue. When everyone left this room there was a clear assumption made and there was a clear narrative being put forward by Mr. Gleeson that neither he nor anybody else from CervicalCheck even had a conversation with the State Claims Agency about it being informed that all women were told. That was the narrative put forward at...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I asked Mr. Gleeson if he had informed the State Claims Agency that all women were informed and he said, "No".

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is that still Mr. Gleeson's position today?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have a transcript here and I want to be helpful. The witness, on 20 April, said that he told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed or it was his assumption that all women had been informed. However, he knew on 20 April that was not the case because he gave evidence to this committee stating that he became aware that it was not the case when the Vicky Phelan case became...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Gleeson gave evidence to this committee stating that he knew, on 20 April, that that was not a true assumption.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Gleeson knew that was not the case on 20 April.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: The witness knew it because he gave evidence to this committee to that effect, which I have here.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: At the meeting in question I stated: ....women were not being informed through their clinicians until the Vicky Phelan case became public knowledge. Is that what I am being told by everyone in this room? If that is not the case, then somebody please tell me that is not true. The witness replied: "I think that is [probably] a fair statement."

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: When did the Vicky Phelan case become public knowledge?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Has he met Mr. Gleeson?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Has he requested to meet Mr. Gleeson?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have a couple of brief questions on the labs. I do not know whether it is still the case that all the cases which are before the courts, or are potentially coming before the courts, relate to the American laboratories.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: So it is just those two laboratories and there are no Irish-----

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Okay. The reports coming from the laboratories that enable people to see whether there are discrepancies between the various laboratories have been requested previously. Having checked with Deputy O'Connell, I believe the health committee requested that information a number of weeks ago. It was subsequently requested by this committee. Are we any closer to getting that information?