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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: When was that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It took some time from the date the strategy was published to roll out a community programme.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I accept that. This has been going from 2017 and the policy was obviously to treat the sickest people first. However, that did not happen because, as has been pointed out, the budget ran out and, from what I am reading, it was suddenly suspended.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I understood that when the budget ran out the programme was suspended.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Therefore, new patients who may have been chronically ill were not getting treatment during the period the programme was suspended.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: No, that happened and that is acknowledged. For a crucial period, people who were very ill, new patients, were not getting treatment because of the budget problems. We now have a new problem now. Professor McCormick is saying that we have plenty of money, which is good, and that he hopes the programme will reach its target well before 2026, which is excellent. However, I am not hearing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The witnesses' openness is very welcome. If such openness had been shown years ago, we would not be in the position where €54 million and rising has been spent on the area. I do not want to exaggerate the cost of the Finlay and Lindsay tribunals but the figure was high enough. The tribunals cost €47 million and there is also the cost of the compensation for all the heartbreak...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: These were the 1,700 people who were identified as having been infected through State action.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: This goes back to the 1990s. I am sorry, I am mixed up.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It is a specific drug. They had been under treatment prior to that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I understand. Hepatitis C has been a notifiable disease since 2004. Two things happened that year. A register was established of those infected as a result of the State and a separate register was established in relation to notifiable diseases. Have these two registers been merged?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I saw that, and there is an uptake of around 80%.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The Comptroller and Auditor General made three recommendations. The HSE accepted them save for one relating to the setting up of a national register, citing data protection issues. Where is the HSE on that recommendation and its related actions?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Was the recommendation in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report reasonable or unreasonable? Is it doable and, if so, when will it-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have read that and I understand those considerations, but when does the HSE see itself overcoming them and what steps is it taking? Is there a process in place to achieve it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have one last question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: My final question has two completely different parts. One will be for Mr. Connaghan. According to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, there will be an updated report by the end of the year, as the last update in the database only took us to 2013. Is that on time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That will be published before the end of the year.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I have a general question on learning. We have gone to great effort and people's lives have been affected. Generally, we sit here every week and try to prevent events from happening and to get our heads around liability. Everyone has a right to go to court, but various incidents lead up to such situations. Coincidentally, we were to discuss and learn from the report on Portiuncula...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am being specific and parochial, but this has major implications for learning. If there is a notifiable disease in Galway, as I have been informed, and staff contract it, and if I then ask a question about it, I will be told that a review will be carried out in the future. I have read the opening statements from Mr. Connaghan and the Department. When an event happens, it should be a case...