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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: This relates to those signing the contracts and the question of when they are next up for renewal. The HSE signs the contract, not the State Claims Agency. Therefore, the HSE also has responsibility. We will do as the Deputy proposes.

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: Dr. Coffey will respond and then we will have Deputy MacSharry.

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: Can we go to Deputy MacSharry?

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: 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)

Seán Fleming: The next speaker will be Deputy Jonathan O'Brien. I have one question. I missed what Mr. Breslin stated a minute ago about the escalation to the Minister. Mr. Breslin was saying if he knew then what he knows now he would have escalated this issue.

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: What exactly was Mr. Breslin referring to?

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: Okay. Let us go through this. We are back into an important issue. Let Mr. Breslin say 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)

Seán Fleming: Rather than Mr. Breslin saying "that", of what did the Department learn? I want him to state 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)

Seán Fleming: Is that 80% of the 200?

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 became aware of the non-disclosure, whereby 80% of the 200 patients had not been notified of that around the time of the court 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)

Seán Fleming: Approximately 20%.

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: Here we are. Listening to what has been said at the meeting, we are at a crunch of an issue here. Mr. Breslin was saying that he, as Secretary General, and Dr. Holohan, as chief medical officer, had they known quite some time ago that 80% of these cases had not been notified to the patients, they would have escalated that information to the Minister.

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, as Accounting Officer, is ultimately responsible for the €15 billion budget that the Oireachtas gives him to spend wisely on its behalf. There was a serious breakdown in information getting to Mr. Breslin, with the non-disclosure of information to 80% of the 208 women involved. It only emerged recently. That information could or should have been known about but was 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)

Seán Fleming: Would Mr. Breslin think that was the most serious failing in this whole issue?

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: To go back to the interim chief executive of the HSE, we are now hearing that the information about these patients and people needing to be informed was in the HSE early in 2016. Mr. Breslin is saying that had he known, after a short period, if that had not happened, it would have been a matter so serious that it required escalation to a Minister. While I am not talking about Mr. Connaghan...

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 understand 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: This problem is that a system was not put in place by the people in charge in the HSE to be on top of this during that two-year period.

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: Deputy O'Brien-----

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: That person was from CervicalCheck.

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 was stated on the record here by Mr. Breen, and we have the transcript of the issue being discussed the last day, that:I have a final question for Mr. Breen [he is the head of the State Claims Agency]. I am asking it now because I will not get another chance. The State Claims Agency was told by CervicalCheck that all the women had been communicated with. Is that not right? Mr. Breen...