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Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: Eighty or 90 women are waiting eight weeks or more.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: How many?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: I have a couple of comments. I find it unbelievable that the witnesses cannot provide the information relating to this protocol today. Why is the protocol being pushed legally, particularly when it is preventing women from getting their slides? Why can some solicitors representing women go into court and get the slides, thereby bypassing this protocol? I do not understand how Mr. Connaghan...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: I asked for clarification on meetings with Dr. Scally and with the lads in Limerick.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: My other questions relates to the protocol on the slides and the issue of the review of the 3,000 cases, which, I presume, Ms Conroy will answer. The third question relates to the meeting in March 2017 regarding clinical risk and admission of liability.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: That is not what I asked. The State Claims Agency and the clinical risk advisers met with CervicalCheck in March 2017. Why did the HSE not tell them that there was a risk?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: It is public knowledge.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: I am sorry, Mr. Connaghan should know this information.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: Ms Conroy might explain what RCOG means.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: Will it refer to Vicky Phelan and Stephen Teap?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: How is it that the two people who have inspired this most - who appeared before this committee and sat where Ms Conroy is sitting - came to believe that this would be completed by the end of May? How can Ms Conroy think that Departmental or HSE communications are working?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: It is not working.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: My other questions relates to admission of liability and protocol.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: I presume Mr. Connaghan will respond to the question on admission of liability and the protocol. I asked how he does not know about the protocol when I know about it? Why is it necessary? Is admission of liability standard for non-disclosure of information in all cases of this nature. Those were my specific questions.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: No. As the chief executive of the HSE, Mr. Connaghan, when asked to come before the committee to discuss this matter, cannot say "I will get back to you". That is not acceptable to the public or to the women affected and their families. He is not doing his job if he cannot at least give basic answers to these questions.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: What about the admission of liability?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: I am not asking that; I am asking whether it is standard practice in order that people will know whether this is the case. A precedent has already been set. I presume that the answer is "Yes", but I just want clarification.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: Why was a separate legal firm hired to do this?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: He has already said he will revert to us. I have asked for it twice.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: I have a number of questions across different topics. At the very beginning, I need to conclude some stuff on the previous topic. In the interval, while we had the break, I had a chance to speak to Mr. Stephen Teap and Ms Vicky Phelan. It is not good news. I also had the opportunity to listen to Ms Emma Mhic Mhathúna's interview, one of the most emotional interviews ever on RTÉ...