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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: Can Dr. O'Keeffe give us the title? It is very hard to follow on the chart with the dots and the lines.

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 not asking that. Who should have -----

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 just want to say that in the world of science, we like to separate fact and feelings.

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: Maybe if feelings are so important we should have used them when we were trying how to decide on dealing with telling patients. Feelings might have really come to the fore if we were putting patients at the centre of this, not data. Earlier, Dr. O'Keeffe referred to her role in the HPV vaccine programme. I refer to any elected Deputy in this House who, through their reckless and...

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: ----- including many people, women will die in future. It is worth mentioning that today. Many people are talking out of multiple sides of whatever orifice one might say they have been talking from.

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: Can I just ask something?

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 cannot find the document we referred to earlier, the audit methodology paper. It is supposed to be in the file. Can anyone direct me to where it is in the documentation? I am looking for the methodology paper from the outset. Is it the overview document?

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: Sorry Chair for interrupting. That is an overview. What I was looking for yesterday at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health - I think I was very clear - is the genesis of the audit process, when it was set out. Can we have 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 follow on from Deputy O'Brien to ask about the audit process and all of that, or rather who knew what and when. July 2017 was when Dr. Henry and Dr. McKenna became aware of this. Dr. Coffey is a radiation oncologist. We mentioned this at the health committee yesterday; medicine is a small world. As a radiation oncologist, does Dr. Coffey consider that it is credible that this did not...

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 not what I am asking.

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: Surely, if it had crossed Dr. Coffey's path, given his position, it would have rung an alarm bell.

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 audit process started. This is key. We spoke about this at the health committee yesterday when I requested of Dr. O'Keeffe the audit methodology paper. This was the plan in place before the audit was started. We have not got that but I have requested it. It is key here. There are many key things here but this is one of them. At the outset of an audit, one should know what its...

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 stated earlier that it was deemed that the treating consultant should be the person to tell the patient. I would argue that the process here is flawed. Did anyone stress-test the plan here? Doctors generally have no problem delivering bad news. They do it most days; it is part of the business. However, was it ever considered that a treating consultant, who sometimes has a...

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 have heard them already.

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 the one asking the questions here, so with respect I note that we are short on time. One of the witnesses said that something can only be escalated if the person in the situation cannot handle it for themselves. I cannot remember who said that. Was it Mr. Connaghan?

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 it is a case of "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not", then they would not know when to escalate. It is clear to me that this is the case here today.

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 know Mr. Connaghan has just been placed at the top of the HSE now, and it is difficult. It seems very clear to me, sitting in this room. I think this is our sixth meeting. Can Deputy Kelly confirm 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 suppose we may count two on a Thursday. There are layers in the HSE. People are running around in their individual layers, there are dots and lines. Clearly-----

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: Clearly nobody seems to know what they were accountable for. The very minimum someone should know when they are in a job within the pay bracket we heard mentioned earlier is what they are responsible for. Nobody seems to be responsible for anything, apart from a couple of people who have been identified. We spoke earlier about the Medical Council. Doctors are subject to the Medical...

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: However, there is not.