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

Catherine Connolly: No. What jumps out of the documents is the strategy to contain. Anyway, I am leaving it. I would say to Dr. O'Keeffe that I think the language was wrong. I think it was totally unacceptable. When a new person joined the HSE, the organisation should have reviewed the matter. In my opinion, the action was not good governance. I have a few questions for Mr. Breen about the State Claims...

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

Catherine Connolly: Good.

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

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

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

Catherine Connolly: It should be done in an open manner with minutes and an agenda.

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

Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. Breen saying that what he told us in his letter has not changed?

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

Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. Breen saying that what he told us in his letter has not changed?

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

Catherine Connolly: The only thing that has changed is that Mr. Gleeson has said that the words "assumed" and "assumption" were used.

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

Catherine Connolly: I am going to leave the matter because my colleagues have gone into it and I do not have the time.

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

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

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

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

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

Catherine Connolly: Is that one closed case and 28 cases where there are legal proceedings either from a letter-----

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

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

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

Catherine Connolly: Is that the last reference to 12, four and one claim?

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

Catherine Connolly: Yes. I wish to raise two issues and one is for Mr. Connaghan. There is one case that brought all of this matter to our attention yet there was no escalation in procedures by the State Claims Agency, in terms of this area. Is that right? Mr. Breen has said so on more than one occasion here.

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

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

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

Catherine Connolly: Was the State Claims Agency aware of the memos that we, subsequently, became aware of?

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

Catherine Connolly: Was the State Claims Agency ever alerted, by any agency, about what was going on in terms of these memos and matters being highlighted?

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

Catherine Connolly: Was the State Claims alerted?

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

Catherine Connolly: Never.

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

Catherine Connolly: I am afraid that I will run out of time. My last question is for Mr. Connaghan. I have read what Dr. Gabriel Scally has said and I have read the two reports. Can I presume that Mr. Connaghan has read them too?