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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 aware of the actual false negatives on a per-lab basis.

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: We heard from the witnesses yesterday about the types of false negatives. Was the witness looking just at false negatives or at the types of false negatives? I understand that this is a screening process, but in the case of Vicky Phelan the retrospective slide had very clear evidence of cancer. Did the witness quantify the type of false negative, or the degree of the miss?

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: That is irrelevant to my point.

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: If a set of eyes is looking at two smears there might be a false negative because of an interpretation error. However, the discrepancy on Vicky Phelan's false negative smear was almost impossible to miss. Was that degree of miss looked at?

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: Does the witness have anything to show us in that regard?

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: We heard evidence yesterday that in 2008 we had the highest rate of cervical cancer. Our slides were sent to another population group - the United States - where the parameters for testing are totally different and where those with private health insurance get smears. Was this looked at before this project began? Was epidemiological or population data looked at? It may be the case 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: Does the witness believe there is no problem with that? If the populations are totally different might that lead to operator error? The baseline is different in different countries.

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: If a person is looking at two sets of slides, one from Ireland, done every three years, and one from the States, done every year, is there a greater possibility of operator error?

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 am talking about the slide that a person was looking at a second or a minute before. In the process of a person looking at slides-----

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: When a person was diagnosed with cancer, triggering an audit, who audited the slides? Was it the same lab? Was it a slide on a shelf or was it photographs of a microscopic image of a slide? Was it looked at by the same company? Was the review of the slide done by the same company that originally read the slide?

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: Its team.

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: They were policing or auditing themselves.

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: Earlier, Dr. O'Keeffe said that she had seen slides in response to the audit findings. Does she recall this? It was when someone asked who had invited her -----

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: She said that the feelings that she had was that there were no systemic errors arising from the audit and that the CervicalCheck information could be informed to the patient. Does Dr. O'Keeffe base her clinical judgement on feelings or science?

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: Dr. O'Keeffe is not a medical doctor, she is a doctor of psychology.

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: And Dr. O'Keeffe is in charge of health and well-being in the HSE.

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 have read the memo. However, Dr. O'Keeffe speaking here this morning in her role as head of health and well-being in the HSE, and her being a clinical psychologist with a PhD, referred to her feelings. She did say that here.

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: On those feelings that Dr. O'Keeffe had during that period, I note that I met Dr. O'Keeffe at the health committee yesterday, where she said that nobody told her that there was an issue in failure regarding the closing out of the audit process. Yesterday, Dr. O'Keeffe did not indicate that she had any feelings about concerns. Yesterday, she gave me the impression that from all the evidence...

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: Had Dr. O'Keeffe's feelings of concern had dissipated at that point?

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: Who should have done that? Who does Dr. O'Keeffe think should have escalated that?