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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does Mr. O'Brien accept that the buck stops with him in all of this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: No, I was at the domestic violence Bill debate but I have the opening statement here. I want to clarify, in terms of accountability and the setup of this in 2008, in spite of all the advice that was given to the witness and the experts that resigned and all that, he made the decision to outsource this screening to America. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am just trying to get to who did the final sign off on this to make the decision, in spite of all the information and the expertise that was being given in terms of the negative externalities which we have talked about in many other cases around the HSE. Who made the final decision on this? Normally somebody signs off on it. Was it made by the HSE in the screening process or was it made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: This is the real crux of the problem. There is layer after layer but there is nobody who will stand up and say this was his or her decision or there is no group of people that will say they made this decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does Mr. O'Brien still believe today that the decision to outsource to America was correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: What would it have taken to make those accredited and fit for purpose instead of outsourcing it to America? Was it investment that it required? What did it require?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is what we are trying to get at because it seems to me that regarding the solution and the service that could have been provided here, investment was not made in it. It was run to an extent that there would be no alternative, which happens so many times, so it would be outsourced to America. I know I am very limited in time. When I had my smear, why did somebody not tell me there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: When the witness is talking to ordinary people, to busy women-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am not sure how much the communications budget within the HSE is but nobody talks to people and says there is a 30% chance this will not work for them. I need to ask Mr. O'Brien - this may have been covered, I apologise if it was - if he is going to publish all of the information around the audit and all of that now, so that we have full information on what is happening now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The witness is trying to hide behind a review that has not even happened yet, God help us all when we go into a commission and there is a completely closed door on it. We need to see the information now and we need to see what communications have taken place between Mr. O'Brien, the Minister and all of the people involved in this. Women are really concerned about what is happening. The GPs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: There is a debacle here to which we have not got any answers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: As Oireachtas Members we need that information here because people are ringing us all of the time. We need to know what has been given to the GPs, what information is out there. We need to know who will pay for these and all of that. I ask the witness to give the committee a full copy of all that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: When?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: What time today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is what women go on the assumption of, that there is a small risk.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Not 30%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I know it is getting late. I want to home in on the relationship between the HSE, the State Claims Agency and the processes involved there. Mr. O'Brien has said he had no knowledge of it but perhaps he can explain what contact the HSE has with the State Claims Agency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Maybe we will narrow it down a small bit. What would the process be around the State Claims Agency with regard to Vicky Phelan's case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does the State Claims Agency seek advice? Would the agency come to the cervical screening board to seek advice on whether or not the agency should go ahead with the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: So the HSE would never seek a person to sign a confidentiality agreement?