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Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Exactly.

Public Accounts Committee: Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure (Resumed)
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It would.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: If it is all right, Deputy Durkan will speak ahead of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Could I just clarify something with Dr. Holohan? Would that only apply if someone was registered with the Medical Council and he or she was a doctor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am just making sure people are aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I wish Mr. Connaghan the best of luck in performing his role. Many members of the committee were members of the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare. When we hear Mr. Connaghan talk about geo-alignment and clinicians in directorship roles, many of us get very excited about that prospect. In particular, Deputy Bernard J. Durkan is very excited about geo-alignment. I genuinely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: My question is whether the process was flawed from the outset.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: To summarise, if the clinicians were involved in the creation of this audit process, this may have been flagged earlier. The conversation would have arisen about who will tell the person or family affected by this. The absence of clinicians in that initial audit design process led to the issues that started to happen in summer 2016.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Was Professor Flannelly in a full-time post?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: If she is to blame in the sense that her head has rolled, which I mean in the nicest possible way, surely there is a deficit now that she is gone, in the sense that she did a lot of work on the HPV vaccine. To my mind, she can be given credit for being involved in the reversal of the downward trend in the HPV vaccine. Just because her head has rolled in this instance is not to say that she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: As a half-time role or full-time role?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Does the job description state that this is a half-time role and that the rest of one's time should be spent in the real world, for want of a better term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Was it in her original one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The point that it was half-time and of being engaged.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I think it is a good thing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: She was there from the outset-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: -----and would have noticed when she returned from the UK that we had a very high level of cervical cancer relative to our European counterparts, and that there was a critical need. She became highly aware, as a witness mentioned earlier, that we are doing about the same amount of smear tests now as we did ten years ago. They simply are being done differently. Everybody is getting a go at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am on 15 minutes and Deputy Kelly had 21 and 57 seconds, so I have still a bit to go yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is not a target; I am just pointing it out. A lot of the narrative in the media and in here has been around who knew what and when, and it was Vicky Phelan who used that phrase initially, if I remember correctly. It seemed to be very clear from all the documentation we received that there is no evidence this was ever escalated to ministerial level. From the evidence, I think we can see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: There has been an internal discussion and I am next.