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- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: Dr. Scally will want that information as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: I understand that when a laboratory has been accredited, Cervical Check conducts quality assurance visits each year. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: I ask Mr. Gleeson to clarify something he said in response to a question posed by Deputy Burke at the meeting of this committee on 17 May last. When Deputy Burke said, "Just to clarify, we are exclusively relying upon these laboratories. At that time, we did not do any independent checking. Once the laboratories were accredited and quality assured, that was it from the HSE's point of view....
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: So it was true to say "We do quality assurance visits."
- 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: Mr. Gleeson also said at the 17 May meeting that CervicalCheck gets "annual reporting rates" from the laboratories and they are "discussed at committee meetings". Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Gleeson would have had sight of those documents. They would have been discussed at committee meetings. From his reading of them, did he see any variation between any of the laboratories? The only information we have is from 2014 to 2015. I presume Mr. Gleeson has seen information for all of the years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: So the variation would be within acceptable limits.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: Okay. That is fair enough. My next question relates to the information that Mr. McCallion's colleague was asked to get. I do not know his name but I note that he has returned to the room. I wonder whether he has an update.
- 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. I appreciate that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: I want to be fair to everyone. We now know information which we did not know previously, particularly in relation to women being informed. It was assumed that women were being informed through their clinicians. Unfortunately, we now know that was not the case. That is what has caused a lot of controversy in this committee and a lot of trauma and hurt for the women themselves. I presume...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: I appreciate that because the person who held the position before Mr. Connaghan did not accept that. I have always said that this is a systems failure. Mr. Connaghan is now admitting that it was a systems failure. If he is not admitting that, maybe I am reading into it incorrectly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: Okay. The person who previously held Mr. Connaghan's position said it was not a systems failure. I appreciate the fact that Mr. Connaghan is now taking responsibility for that. Given everything we now know about information and assumptions, does Mr. Breen have full confidence that all the information the State Claims Agency is getting on CervicalCheck is factual and correct and that no...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: I want to give Mr. Gleeson an opportunity to comment. He was the person responsible for ensuring that loop was closed initially. It was not closed, for whatever reason. As already stated, at our previous meeting he was uncertain whether it was his responsibility. If Mr. Gleeson would like to comment, he should feel to do so because I think it is important that women hear that someone is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: To whom has it been assigned? Who is responsible for ensuring that loop remains closed into the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: That is in respect of the 209 women.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: So that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Jonathan O'Brien: It is the responsibility of that team from now on.