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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)

David Cullinane: I am looking for the reason. Perhaps Mr. Breslin might answer the question.

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)

David Cullinane: 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)

David Cullinane: With respect to Mr. Breslin - m apologies to the Chairman - I am seething with anger. I am trying to get answers to questions. We are trying to drag information out of the HSE and the Department, minute by minute, day by day and meeting by meeting. There is a drip feed of information and Mr. Breslin is telling me what he did last week. I am asking what was done in 2016 and subsequently,...

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)

David Cullinane: Politically, who would have had to go out? If there was a concern within the HSE and CervicalCheck that a media strategy had to be put in place because of the risks to the organisation and the programme and that some of the women might go to the media and the programme would be compromised, who would have had to go out and defend it politically?

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)

David Cullinane: That is fine. I am asking Mr. Breslin now about the March 2016 memo and the July memos which talk about putting a media strategy in place and about fears and risk in terms of the programme. I am asking - if that did happen - who would have been the person who would have had to answer questions on that in a political sense?

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)

David Cullinane: 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)

David Cullinane: I am going to stop Mr. Breslin there, 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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Breslin and his colleagues were 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)

David Cullinane: -----as he and his colleagues were not aware of it. The Minister 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)

David Cullinane: Officials were down the chain.

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)

David Cullinane: No, it is not 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)

David Cullinane: It was not a plan to inform all women. It was a plan not to inform all women. Bear with me. It was a plan to inform some women, where we give consultants discretion. We know then from the meeting, about which we talked earlier, in September 2017 that clinicians had a concern that they were being asked to do it. We know only one in four women was told. We then know that of those women...

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)

David Cullinane: I did not say that, so please do not put words in my mouth. I said the plan was not to inform all women. There was a plan put in place to inform some women. Listen to what I am saying. What I said earlier was that the strategy was to reduce the volume of women who would know. It is very clear when the plan said to decide on the order and volume of dispatch to mitigate any potential...

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)

David Cullinane: I am very disappointed with Mr. Breslin's response but I will put questions now to Dr. Holohan. I said earlier that I was very angry with him and I am. Last week when I put very specific questions to Mr. Breslin about the knowledge of the memos to the Department, Dr. Holohan tried in a brazen way to try to help us 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)

David Cullinane: That is how I saw 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)

David Cullinane: With respect to the Cathaoirleach, I have respect for everybody here but I believe the witnesses performance last week and the fact that they did not give us that information was absolutely unacceptable. I ask Dr. Holohan why he did not volunteer that information to us last week.

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)

David Cullinane: I accept that but let me make this point-----

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)

David Cullinane: -----because I am tight on time.

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)

David Cullinane: It was not just the March memo. I was two memos in July. There were a lot of meetings which Dr. Holohan attended and it is not good enough for him to say he had a memory blank because it was two years ago.

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)

David Cullinane: It is inconceivable that he would not have known about all the memos and meetings. I ask Dr. Holohan a direct question. How many women were directly contacted by CervicalCheck on their misdiagnoses?