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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)

Kate O'Connell: She said that the feelings that she had was that there were no systemic errors arising from the audit and that the CervicalCheck information could be informed to the patient. Does Dr. O'Keeffe base her clinical judgement on feelings or science?

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)

Kate O'Connell: Dr. O'Keeffe is not a medical doctor, she is a doctor of psychology.

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)

Kate O'Connell: And Dr. O'Keeffe is in charge of health and well-being in the HSE.

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)

Kate O'Connell: I have read the memo. However, Dr. O'Keeffe speaking here this morning in her role as head of health and well-being in the HSE, and her being a clinical psychologist with a PhD, referred to her feelings. She did say that here.

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)

Kate O'Connell: On those feelings that Dr. O'Keeffe had during that period, I note that I met Dr. O'Keeffe at the health committee yesterday, where she said that nobody told her that there was an issue in failure regarding the closing out of the audit process. Yesterday, Dr. O'Keeffe did not indicate that she had any feelings about concerns. Yesterday, she gave me the impression that from all the evidence...

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)

Kate O'Connell: Had Dr. O'Keeffe's feelings of concern had dissipated at that point?

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)

Kate O'Connell: Who should have done that? Who does Dr. O'Keeffe think should have escalated 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)

Kate O'Connell: Can Dr. O'Keeffe give us the title? It is very hard to follow on the chart with the dots and the lines.

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)

Kate O'Connell: I am not asking that. Who should have -----

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)

Kate O'Connell: I just want to say that in the world of science, we like to separate fact and feelings.

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)

Kate O'Connell: Maybe if feelings are so important we should have used them when we were trying how to decide on dealing with telling patients. Feelings might have really come to the fore if we were putting patients at the centre of this, not data. Earlier, Dr. O'Keeffe referred to her role in the HPV vaccine programme. I refer to any elected Deputy in this House who, through their reckless and...

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)

Kate O'Connell: ----- including many people, women will die in future. It is worth mentioning that today. Many people are talking out of multiple sides of whatever orifice one might say they have been talking from.

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)

Kate O'Connell: Can I just ask something?

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)

Kate O'Connell: I cannot find the document we referred to earlier, the audit methodology paper. It is supposed to be in the file. Can anyone direct me to where it is in the documentation? I am looking for the methodology paper from the outset. Is it the overview document?

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)

Kate O'Connell: Sorry Chair for interrupting. That is an overview. What I was looking for yesterday at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health - I think I was very clear - is the genesis of the audit process, when it was set out. Can we have 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)

Kate O'Connell: I follow on from Deputy O'Brien to ask about the audit process and all of that, or rather who knew what and when. July 2017 was when Dr. Henry and Dr. McKenna became aware of this. Dr. Coffey is a radiation oncologist. We mentioned this at the health committee yesterday; medicine is a small world. As a radiation oncologist, does Dr. Coffey consider that it is credible that this did not...

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)

Kate O'Connell: That is not what I am asking.

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)

Kate O'Connell: Surely, if it had crossed Dr. Coffey's path, given his position, it would have rung an alarm bell.

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)

Kate O'Connell: The audit process started. This is key. We spoke about this at the health committee yesterday when I requested of Dr. O'Keeffe the audit methodology paper. This was the plan in place before the audit was started. We have not got that but I have requested it. It is key here. There are many key things here but this is one of them. At the outset of an audit, one should know what its...

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)

Kate O'Connell: Dr. O'Keeffe stated earlier that it was deemed that the treating consultant should be the person to tell the patient. I would argue that the process here is flawed. Did anyone stress-test the plan here? Doctors generally have no problem delivering bad news. They do it most days; it is part of the business. However, was it ever considered that a treating consultant, who sometimes has a...