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

Catherine Connolly: The witnesses can come back with the precise date. Will the contract with Quest be up this year?

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

Catherine Connolly: That is this year.

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

Catherine Connolly: What about MedLab Pathology?

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

Catherine Connolly: What are the plans for those contracts?

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

Catherine Connolly: The new system being put in place will determine the type of lab to be sought.

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

Catherine Connolly: Will it be outside the country? Have the witnesses assessed the capacity within the country for the new system?

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

Catherine Connolly: When will that assessment be ready?

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

Catherine Connolly: It is an extremely important question in terms of value for money. I sat on the health forum years ago and watched this debacle emerge when all the experts told us not to outsource. Quest was mentioned in particular at the time. I am not blaming the witnesses for that but I certainly put blame on the establishment of the time and the type of philosophy that existed. We watched this happen...

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

Catherine Connolly: There is no clinical lead.

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

Catherine Connolly: They are major issues, as value for money is relevant to this committee.

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

Catherine Connolly: If we are giving preferences, I would like to see the service provided in our public hospitals. Is there an update on the risk register? Why was there not one before? Did I understand correctly that there were quality assurance visits to the various companies? What did that entail or highlight? What is the record of those visits?

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

Catherine Connolly: When will that be?

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

Catherine Connolly: Is there an estimate?

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

Catherine Connolly: What about the quality assurance visits?

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

Catherine Connolly: Was it part of the contract that there would be site visits to go over?

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

Catherine Connolly: There would be a record of that visit, what was discussed and what was found out.

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

Catherine Connolly: It is freely available somewhere.

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

Catherine Connolly: Do the witnesses want to have a break?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Catherine Connolly: We will take the Chairman's word for it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Nobody has mentioned that.