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Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: As happened, smear test results might come back saying "All clear" but that was not the position. They were not all clear. There was cancer but the result of the smear test said it was clear.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Until the audit was done.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: On the cases that the audit was done.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: In looking back, it was discovered then that they were not informed in time.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That whole process has been suspended now, pending sorting all of this out.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Dr. McKenna.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Everybody will be present at the end of that process.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Great.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for all of the documents. They have been very helpful. I want to come back later to the audit that has been stopped because I have still not gotten my head around it. First, I have practical questions on the accounts. In Mr. Connaghan's opening statement, on page 2, it says that the majority of the deficit, €73 million, is attributable to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Are people being treated in public hospitals on their private insurance but the insurers are not paying up?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: In terms of the delay in signing the form, if someone is in hospital for a day or two and they do not sign the form, does the public purse pick up the cost for those days?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What is the HSE doing about that problem?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is it down as a bad debt of €73 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: How much will not be recovered?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Has the figure gone up or down since the previous year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What has it gone up by?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: On governance issues and value for money which are the main reasons the witnesses are before us, many problems have emerged in how bodies under section 38 and 39 are run. We do not need to go back over them but they have been set out. As a result of that different things have happened and a series of external reviews has been set up. The last time we were here discussing chapter 19 of the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: They were to be completed by the end of 2017. Why were they not completed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Who were the two other providers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: These are serious issues of governance and then we are reassured that external reviews are under way and that they will be completed. How many have been completed? How many remain to be completed? What is the cost and timeframe?