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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: Was it the janitor in CervicalCheck or was it the director? I mean the witnesses have to be credible in answering questions.

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: Dr. Connors knows. Do the witnesses want to confer privately?

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: The clinical director.

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: Deputy Kelly has covered much of this but, on the same thread, I wish to discuss the letter from Professor Burke of July 2017 to Professor Colette Cowan, which was copied to Dr. Henry. I will read two parts of that for the record, as they are important:... the guidelines outlined do appear to put an undue onus on the treating clinician rather than the screening programme to communicate...

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, particularly given what Dr. O'Keeffe has said several times about one person being missing who might be able to fill in some of the gaps. According to the various memos on the audit development process, including the February one, the State Claims Agency was consulted. Was it consulted along the way? Was it in the loop? Was there any advice from it as to how 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)

Marc MacSharry: Would the agency have ventured any advice such as "Yes, absolutely"?

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 advice at all.

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: The agency's whole function is legal.

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 did not get to my question at all. What does Mr. Breslin think 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)

Marc MacSharry: Okay. Throw it out there.

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: When it appeared before us, I asked a question about cases. According to Mr. Breen, the figure was approximately 50%. In cases that were settled without admission of liability, the State Claims Agency had no role in recommending, or were not aware of whether there was, follow-up monitoring or training in respect of positions or practitioners who may have been associated with those cases....

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: Can Mr. Breslin confirm that it is the case in reality?

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: Yes.

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: Let us say that there was a gynaecological complaint and a child born with cerebral palsy goes to court and wins without an admission of liability. Are the relevant physicians associated with that case subject to any ongoing process of retraining or monitoring by a superior or peer? The State Claims Agency does not recommend it, which seems to be a failure on the risk management side in...

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 like Mr. Connaghan, in that I would expect that. I am conscious that he and Mr. McCallion are new brooms and I wish them well in their positions, but I have reason to believe that there is nothing written down and there is no protocol. For example, the Carpenter family received a settlement last week or the week before after a much-celebrated ten weeks of mediation, which followed five...

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 do not want to drag this out, and I am sorry that Ms Mannion did not get to speak all day. I am sure she is delighted.

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 do not necessarily want case-by-case examples, but the State Claims Agency stated that approximately 50% of cases were settled without admission of liability. With a "Yes" or "No" answer, is there an official procedure of monitoring and retraining those individuals?

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: Is that in every case?

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: Is that not more of an annual appraisal situation?

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: That is out there in the future and I am more interested in the heretofore. It is great we will have all these things in the future but I am concerned with the here and now. Let us use the Carpenter case as an example. I do not know what physicians were involved. They are not named in any cases I have seen. Are the various people associated with that case now subject to monitoring,...