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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: We have heard them already.

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 the one asking the questions here, so with respect I note that we are short on time. One of the witnesses said that something can only be escalated if the person in the situation cannot handle it for themselves. I cannot remember who said that. Was it Mr. Connaghan?

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: If it is a case of "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not", then they would not know when to escalate. It is clear to me that this is the case here today.

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 know Mr. Connaghan has just been placed at the top of the HSE now, and it is difficult. It seems very clear to me, sitting in this room. I think this is our sixth meeting. Can Deputy Kelly confirm 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 suppose we may count two on a Thursday. There are layers in the HSE. People are running around in their individual layers, there are dots and lines. Clearly-----

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: Clearly nobody seems to know what they were accountable for. The very minimum someone should know when they are in a job within the pay bracket we heard mentioned earlier is what they are responsible for. Nobody seems to be responsible for anything, apart from a couple of people who have been identified. We spoke earlier about the Medical Council. Doctors are subject to the Medical...

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: However, there is 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: There is not a-----

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: There is in the image.

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 wish to return to a separate issue, and I am not sure if anybody who is here can answer my query. We received a document concerning June 2016. I was looking at it last night. It addresses the total number of cases. We are talking about the first group of 1,500 women. Let us call them group A. These are the women connected to CervicalCheck. When the health service looked back, 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)

Kate O'Connell: Can the witnesses just confirm that the audit process always involves looking at a smear? I am genuinely not 100% clear on this.

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 sorry for holding the document up. After the 653 cases emerged, all of the slides were looked at again for that group of 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)

Kate O'Connell: There was a retrospective audit.

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: Did that involve looking at their slides?

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: Was this done by the same people that looked at them the first time?

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: Part of Dr. Scally's review will include a complete review of all of these.

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, yes. That is part of the result of all of this. All of these cases will be reviewed.

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: Is there any proposal for random auditing of the samples? I am sorry if someone else asked this today. Mr. Stephen Teap mentioned the idea yesterday. I am not saying that we have to do everything that everybody asks, but it seems like a rational and reasonable request. Do we know if that is in train or happening?

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: Just in case I missed it earlier, following Deputy Catherine Murphy's question I wish to ask about the breakdown of the classification of the cancers of the 209 people involved. Will that assessment be done too? If it had been caught three years earlier, the prognosis would have been X, Y or Z. Is that the sort of thing we are looking at?

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: Will that include any effect on their prognosis?