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Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: How many cases are there? What is the update on the number of cases that have been taken?

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It will follow that up later. That is 11 in total, to Mr. O'Brien knowledge.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. O'Brien aware of who is being sued in those cases? Are all of the laboratories being sued, or just one laboratory along with the Health Service Executive? Can Mr. O'Brien confirm that for me at this point?

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am asking what Mr. O'Brien is aware of as head of the Health Service Executive.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: In relation to the 48 cases of women who were initially notified, what criteria were used for notifying those women, as opposed to the rest of the women out of the 209?

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It was ad hoc and haphazard?

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No, I am asking Mr. O'Brien.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Brien cannot answer me, as head of the Health Service Executive, as to what criteria were used to notify those 48 women.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Brien is in this space as head of an organisation, responsible for holding everything to account. If Vicky Phelan had not come forward, what would have happened within the system of which Mr. O'Brien is the head? What changes would have occurred, if any, if she had not come forward and this had not come to light?

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am asking Mr. O'Brien to answer that question as head of the Health Service Executive.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No, it is not hypothetical. I have read the whole annual account. I have looked at it. There are systems in place. How was someone not alerted at some level in all of these? There is a risk assessment committee, there is a directorate that Mr. O'Brien reports to, and Mr. O'Brien also reports to the Minister. In answer to a previous question I asked him, Mr. O'Brien said he was informed...

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: How did it not go further at that point? I think the word is "escalate". How was it not recognised at that point, given all of these systems?

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It was escalated to Mr. O'Brien in early 2016.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Sorry. Mr. O'Brien was made aware in early 2016 that results of an audit confirmed that previous smear tests given a negative result were positive. Mr. O'Brien was aware of that.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. O'Brien did say that. He said that he was not aware of the significance of it. What-----

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The significance of the numbers.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I beg the witness's pardon. Correct me, please.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I do not know what is true. What I am asking the witness is this. He was made aware in a memo. With how many women was he made aware that there was a problem?

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No, I am asking Mr. O'Brien now. He has re-read it lately.

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Let me say that I find this unacceptable. I prefaced my remarks by saying I do not think it is the role of this committee to call for heads. That is not part of my role. It is my role to ask Mr. O'Brien a question, and I asked him earlier when he was made aware. I read in the newspaper that he was made aware by the media. It looks like he was made aware in-----