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

Kate O'Connell: I am asking Mr. Gleeson to verbalise it.

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

Kate O'Connell: So, every two years.

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

Kate O'Connell: I find it interesting that every two years when the contract was looked at, nothing seemed to stand out. Maybe there was nothing to see, but it seems a bit odd. I turn to the QA matter. This is back to the regulation and we are dealing with Brexit. Every country or area has its QA people who come in to ensure the machine is working properly, that the guy checking is qualified and that the...

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

Kate O'Connell: Yes.

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

Kate O'Connell: Is that why the service was going over for visits?

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

Kate O'Connell: For a particular laboratory, there is the QA of the particular country, be it America or Ireland, to ensure it is working within the right parameters from a lab point of view. We then have people going over periodically on site visits. Somebody committed to providing us with the detail of those visits and what happened. Did Mr. Gleeson say an oncologist went on the site visits?

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

Kate O'Connell: Sorry. I did not hear that right. In any event, it was a medical person who went over. He or she hardly went over to check the temperature of the room. It is more than likely that as a pathologist went over, it was to look at slides or the level of accuracy of readings. That would have been the focus of a pathologist.

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

Kate O'Connell: I think Deputy Murphy or Connolly asked about this. It is very important for this investigation to determine what happened when the pathologist went to the laboratory. Was it for tea and coffee or was it to look at proper data outcomes for Irish patients?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport Ireland (12 Jun 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the benefits from the results of the recently published sports monitor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25245/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (12 Jun 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which schools can benefit from the sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25243/18]

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (Resumed) (31 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Irish people for the resounding "Yes" vote they cast as a nation on Friday last. We have come so far since 1983, when the pulpit ruled and we were subjected to the threats and fearmongering of a vengeful creed. Looking back now, it is hard to imagine that Ireland back then was very different from the modern, globalised and informed country we have today. An information deficit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Home Care Provision: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning. Following on from Deputy Durkan's questions about the difference between that which is provided by the private sector and the public sector and the budgets, it makes no sense to me that the budgets would be separate because then it would almost be like a target to be reached rather than basket to take from. Has anybody any figures on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Following on from what was discussed before the lunch break, I want to focus on the auditing process and the genesis of CervicalCheck as a programme We received screening data from the labs at both committees which refers to the period 2013 to 2016. The lab data we were given is from that time, but the audit precedes that time. Is there any reason we have not been given the lab data for...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Okay, I missed that.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I will have to get through it at some point. Does the witness have any answers as to why the data we received was unrelated to the time of the audit? Why was that decided? Who decided on that? I need a quick answer; I do not want to waste time.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It seems strange. Dr. McKenna spoke earlier about the rate of false negatives in testing ranging between 10% and 40% in the international literature. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked earlier if there were any other issues that might explain why such discrepancies exist. When the witnesses were getting the audit data back from external labs was it delivered in one tranche or was it broken down...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The trigger is a cancer diagnosis, and then a review is initiated. Did the witness ever produce a spreadsheet naming the case and attaching it to the relevant laboratory? When the review was carried out, and person A's slide was taken out from laboratory X, was a chart ever produced with the concerning result versus laboratory?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Did the witness find out anything?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Is it the case that one laboratory can be at 90% and another at 50%, and the average then would be 70%?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The witness was not trying.