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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)

Seán Fleming: If the committee had not pursued this line of inquiry, we would not have learned that a draft press release had been prepared.

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)

Seán Fleming: The committee should have been given the full pack of documents. The HSE provided three memorandums last week and a draft press release was ready to go, if required. If we did not know there was a draft press release - fair dues to Deputy Jonathan O'Brien for teasing out that information - we would not have been able to ask questions about it. We would have left this meeting not knowing...

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)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Connaghan make arrangements to have someone get the full package of documents during the break in order that we have them in the early afternoon? We need more than just the three specific memorandums provided last week. Deputy Peter Burke will now make a ten-minute contribution, after which we will suspend for one hour for lunch.

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)

Seán Fleming: We have Professor Kerri Clough-Gorr from the National Cancer Registry.

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)

Seán Fleming: I ask Ms Clough-Gorr to speak to the microphone. I know she has to turn her back to the Deputy, but for it to be picked up properly she needs to speak to the microphone.

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)

Seán Fleming: Who said 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)

Seán Fleming: If someone is diagnosed now

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)

Seán Fleming: On bowel screening?

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)

Seán Fleming: How many years was the CervicalCheck programme running before-----

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)

Seán Fleming: It is there ten years.

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)

Seán Fleming: The National Cancer Registry.

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)

Seán Fleming: Before we conclude, is the screening programme under the national cancer control programme?

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)

Seán Fleming: If I may finish this one-----

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)

Seán Fleming: No. Just one moment. There is not a two-way exchange of information between CervicalCheck, which is part of the HSE and was part of the national cancer control programme, and the National Cancer Registry. Is that 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)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Gleeson said that because of that, he is not allowed have this two-way exchange of information.

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)

Seán Fleming: I am utterly confused at this point. I have the National Cancer Registry accounts for 2016 in front of me. The chairman of that board is Dr. Coffey, so he is telling me he cannot exchange information with himself.

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)

Seán Fleming: The Department of Health-----

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)

Seán Fleming: I say this to the acting chief executive, and perhaps he will be moving on it. We have just heard that National Cancer Registry Ireland is an independently funded board under the Department of Health, but we find that the man sitting here from the HSE is the chairman of the board. Where is the independence in 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)

Seán Fleming: If the Secretary General of the Department of Health was setting up National Cancer Registry Ireland as an independent board of the Department, and no disrespect to him - it has nothing to do with his competence - I find it incongruous that he would put the national cancer programme director from the HSE in charge of that independent board.

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)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Breslin has just made the case for why it should not just be another branch of the HSE. If it wants such a level of control, co-operation and exchange of information, it puts one of the HSE staff as chairman of the board.