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- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Will it require a significant team to be put in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Is that team in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I had understood that it would commence the review within a short period?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: What timeline is involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: I will come back to one particular point regarding the State Claims Agency. We had a meeting last year at which it was talked about generally. I cannot recall the specific date.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: The risk meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: It is clear from the memos what was known at that stage. Deputy Connolly referred to some of those matters such as concern in the HSE about screaming headlines and potentially undermining the screening programme. It was well known in the HSE and there was talk about how it would communicate, but then it did not communicate and held back letters. We know the body of memos that are there. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Pardon me for overlooking €600 million here or there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: It is a very large amount of money. Would that not have jumped out as something being wrong in terms of risk assessment? Was it not considered to be a very serious risk and that the risk assessment needed to be upscaled? Did that arise? I cannot get my head around the fact that it is only when one is almost at the end game that the State Claims Agency gets involved. The agency is going...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Was Mr. Breen surprised subsequently with what they knew and what information was brought to his attention?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Should it have?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: A commitment was given in the Dáil by the Taoiseach on the women or their families in the cohort of 209 women in relation to legal cases. The Taoiseach made a commitment - and I am paraphrasing - that the objective was for the women not to have to take legal cases but that the State would take the cases. As such, the women would not have to do it directly themselves. What engagement...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: That is what he said, yet within a week or two, Ms Emma Mhic Mhathúna was in and out of the High Court. It almost jarred with the commitment that was made.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Has the SCA the capacity to mediate with the number of people involved in a timely way?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Are we dealing with the correspondence I sent?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: It was about the RSA. Perhaps we could write to it. The nub of it is that it spent €2 million on IT and other equipment relating to using the public services card but it has no authority to use it. That should have been checked before it spent the money. I can give the Chairman my notes on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: When it comes back we can follow it up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: Different times of the year will be different too.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)
Catherine Murphy: We should not confine ourselves to these questions either.