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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)

Marc MacSharry: I understand.

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)

Marc MacSharry: I must have missed that because I was probably preparing for this.

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)

Marc MacSharry: I am sorry, if I did. What do they talk about, if they do not talk about this sort of stuff?

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)

Marc MacSharry: Okay, I get the point. Since this debacle of last week and the professional judgment not to escalate, has the Minister issued any guidance to the Department stating, "Gentlemen, I want to know everything from now on"?

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)

Marc MacSharry: I just asked. I did not ask Mr. Breslin to tell me to justify my question. I just asked him.

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)

Marc MacSharry: Have there been no guidelines from the Minister since this debacle stating, "Anything like this happening, guys, I want to know first thing, morning or night"? Has no new protocol been put in place?

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)

Marc MacSharry: They had a chat.

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)

Marc MacSharry: They had a talk about it. They had a chat about it, Mr. Breslin said.

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)

Marc MacSharry: I am more talking about tomorrow, if something happens. Has the Minister introduced any protocol to ensure that he or she would know immediately?

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)

Marc MacSharry: I would say it is a "Yes" or "No", with respect.

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)

Marc MacSharry: All right. We have established that the protocols, based on professional judgment, might not be in the public interest as we would see it.

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)

Marc MacSharry: I appreciate Mr. Breslin does not agree with it but nobody has exclusivity on being correct.

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)

Marc MacSharry: What I am asking, based on the debacle of the last number of weeks, is whether the line Ministers relevant to this area introduced any new protocols or adjusted protocols in order that the same thing does not happen again, or is it a case of steady as she goes where they are happy enough with how the protocols were?

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)

Marc MacSharry: I can only say, in my humble lowly back bench opinion, had I been a Minister while all this was going on, one of the first things I would have done would have been to tell the Secretary General and CMO that from now on, I would want a list every morning of what was going on. I simply asked the question, "Has the line Minister introduced any new protocol or directions?"

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)

Marc MacSharry: It is a yes or no question. Mr. Breslin has 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)

Marc MacSharry: It is yes or no.

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)

Marc MacSharry: No. Okay, Mr. Breslin has answered the question. The answer is no. Am I done?

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)

Marc MacSharry: Okay, thanks.

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)

Marc MacSharry: It would be helpful if Dr. Connors told us more on that. He spoke to the State Claims Agency outside of this room.

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)

Marc MacSharry: I understand that. Did he go through a list of everyone who was in the room and ask if it could assure him that none of those people told it or did it say "so and so" told it. If Dr. Connors does not want to mention a name, perhaps he will mention the position the person held?