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- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: No, it is not a cheap shot.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: I am certainly not here to deliver any cheap shots to Mr. O'Brien or to anybody else, but I do have a view on Mr. O'Brien's role as the Accounting Officer to this committee and as the director general of the HSE. I will get to that in a few moments. That is my job. Mr. O'Brien has a job to do as director general of the HSE. As public representatives it is our job to hold him to account....
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: I do not want to hear from Dr. Holohan. We have an hour and a half with Mr. O'Brien and we will then have time to put questions to Dr. Holohan. I am looking for Mr. O'Brien's interpretation.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: That is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: I am sorry, my question is quite distinct and I ask Dr. Holohan to also be distinct. I know it is a complex area but my question is a very simple one. Mr. O'Brien is telling us that this not a perfect science. We accept that. We accept that it is not infallible and that is not a diagnosis. We accept that there is approximately a 30% failure rate, which could include false negatives....
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: Was the difference in Vicky Phelan's case very subtle?
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: I thank Dr. Holohan for that. I will come back to Mr. O'Brien because we are talking about individuals. We are talking about 208 women and I want to direct this question to Mr. O'Brien.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: I appreciate that. When the serious incident management team did its review of the audit it established that there were 208 women who should have been communicated with and that 175 cases received an interpretation different from the original smear result. Based on the opinion of the review team, this would have led to a different clinical escalation. My problem with Mr. O'Brien is that he...
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: The issue here is that these 208 women were not told. That was a systemic decision taken by the HSE. Mr. O'Brien is responsible for systemic decisions taken within his organisation. The real scandal here was the response to that systemic failure and that women were not told. Mr. O'Brien has heard that Ms Mhic Mhathúna was on "Morning Ireland" this morning. It was very harrowing...
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: Was it a systemic failure?
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: I ask Mr. O'Brien if it was a systemic failure.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: I wish to firstly ask whether those 208 women not being informed was a systemic failure within the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: Was it a systemic failure?
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: Those staff are accountable to the HSE.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: Is it a systemic failure?
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: It was either a systemic failure or it was not. Mr. O'Brien is continually dancing on the head of a pin. Anybody with half a brain would know that it was a systemic failure. Mr. O'Brien does not want to accept it is a systemic failure because, if it was, he would have to step down.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: In February 2016, the women were not informed. Two years and two months later, only 46 of the 208 women had been informed. That was a decision taken within the HSE. It was, therefore, a systemic failure and the fact that Mr. O'Brien will not accept that speaks volumes about his understanding of failures and accountability.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: I did not state that Mr. O'Brien was party to the decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: Let me make a quick point for the purposes of clarification. I do not think it is fair for the director general to leave it at that. In the circular discretion was given to GPs. They were given discretion to decide whether they should communicate the results; therefore, it is not correct to say the HSE, or the body, did not take a decision not to inform the women. Discretion was given to...
- Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018) David Cullinane: Doctors.