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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 Murphy: I wish to bring to the attention of Mr. O'Brien that in an interview on RTÉ Radio 1 this morning, Emma Mhic Mhathúna stated that her obstetrician, of whom she was very complimentary, told her that had the false negative been communicated at the time, it is likely that she would not be in the position in which she now finds herself. I acknowledge that Mr. O'Brien has not heard 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 Murphy: Part of the reason for Mr. O'Brien being in attendance at the committee today is the issue of open disclosure, which is on the committee's work programme. We were considering it in a very cold way because we are looking at the contingent liabilities. However, we are examining those because they show the culture in an organisation. What we are being told about open disclosure and what is...

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 Murphy: Is it not the same?

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 Murphy: I find that very difficult to accept. If somebody is bouncing emails about whose decision it is, there is a decision being taken. The decision being taken is not to communicate if the decision is being postponed. I find it very difficult to accept Mr. O'Brien's explanation.

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 Murphy: Returning to the 2016 memo, when Mr. O'Brien looked at it, it was within the range that would not have caused him particular concerns? The communications strategy was to communicate with people who would be told that there had been a false negative in the past. There was a catastrophic piece of communications work to be done. Two separate things are happening in this case. One is looking...

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 Murphy: Is that when a case is initiated?

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 Murphy: May I ask just one question?

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 Murphy: There is a breach of duty and a breach of causation. Will Mr. Breen, please, define them?

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 Murphy: When we put the subject of contingent liability and open disclosure on the committee’s work plan earlier in the year, it was viewed in a more academic way than how it is unfolded now. It has unfolded because of system and process failures which have impacted people in a very personal way. There have been 10,000 phone calls to the helpline, some of which have been replied to. From...

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 Murphy: We need people to be taken care of if there is a failure. We all accept it is how it happens. The open disclosure experience in other countries tends to show it can be beneficial in that one can save on the legal side and not take shortcuts in the actual care and treatment required by people. Mr. Breslin's submission stated:As the committee will be aware, in 2017 a total of €283...

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 Murphy: I recall a matter that is not relevant to the health service; it is more one for the State Claims Agency. Perhaps ten years ago, we had case after case involving parents who went to the courts because they could not get appropriate education for their children. In response to a parliamentary question, I was advised that over a period of three years €20 million was spent on legal...

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 Murphy: Right-----

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 Murphy: When can we expect to see training complete and open disclosure fully operational within in the HSE in order that we might see a change in the culture?

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 Murphy: Is there an audit in the hospitals that looked at particular files?

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 Murphy: Is an audit carried out across the hospital system?

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 Murphy: I wish to ask about the incident that is very current at the moment, namely, that relating to cervical smear tests. Within that €2.2 billion, would the State Claims Agency have captured an amount that would be part of a contingent liability specifically relating to the failure that we are seeing at the moment?

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 Murphy: Would that be the same for breast screening and bowel screening?

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 Murphy: Would there be any cases-----

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 Murphy: Are there cases relating to those that have come-----

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 Murphy: I echo the Vice Chairman's point. This is not what I expected to read. When Mr. O'Brien was talking to us this morning, he was very much focused on the communications strategy and how it was not carried out. He went further, however, and said that when he reread it, it did not cause him any serious concern. He also talked about the requirement to manage the situation when something like...