Results 17,061-17,080 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I believe this is a management strategy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It happens too often. I asked for some documents at the meeting last week on the communications strategies, including communications to the women and to the media, which I believe might tell us something about the thinking behind this. I also asked for some other materials, and we were given an assurance that we would receive what we asked for before the meeting. I have not seen the bundle...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: We are going to have to do something about it, because we have seen other organisations, including the HSE, using this strategy when they may well be under serious pressure, with a number of things going on at the same time. This late arrival of a volume of documents is not an isolated incident. We are going to have to put some markers down, not just for this meeting, but for future...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I agree with Deputy Kelly by the way. We are going to have to have time to read these documents.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I am located miles away. I am up nearly in the Shelbourne Hotel.

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)

Catherine Murphy: Last week, I looked for particular information, including the communications strategy. We got a lot of stuff overnight. I had been watching for it all week. We have received some correspondence overnight but I cannot see the communications strategy included in that. There was a commitment to give us that documentation. Why have we not received it? Before that question is answered, I...

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)

Catherine Murphy: Which one of the witnesses has responsibility for the contracts the HSE has with the laboratories?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Who here?

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)

Catherine Murphy: I will address some of my questions to Mr. Gleeson. In reading the memos last week and in reading some of the other material, it was obvious that what was being looked at was a kind of statistical analysis and whether it was within the expected range in circumstances in which, we have been told, screening is not 100% accurate in identifying what have been described as false negatives. One of...

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)

Catherine Murphy: Pardon?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Failure at that level is critically important. We are told two sets of eyes look at these. In Vicky Phelan's case, there were two separate smear tests. That is a failure rate of 400%. Will the witnesses comment on whether or not there was a closed mind, by simply looking at this from a statistical perspective rather than delving deeper? There seems to have been a difference between 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)

Catherine Murphy: I think it was Irene Teap who had the two scans. I have been asked by somebody to ask the witnesses some questions about the detection rate between the labs. There is very significant public concern about people who have engaged with the screening programme, which I still encourage women to do. The high grade detection rate of lab A was half that of two other laboratories. What lab is...

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)

Catherine Murphy: Dr. McKenna is saying there may be a cohort that is not similar so a direct comparison may not be a fair 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)

Catherine Murphy: I do not understand if there is this supposed failsafe put into the system with regard to two people looking at the tests how something that is a fairly obvious anomaly would not be picked up in that context. What has been looked at in the context of the skillsets of the people who are conducting the tests? Is it of a similar standard? Is it something that has been considered at this stage?

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)

Catherine Murphy: They will find one individual within a lab.

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)

Catherine Murphy: I want to move on to a couple of more questions. I was quite appalled by the means of communicating the terrible news - Stephen Teap went into it last night - to some of the families. They were put into a holding room. There was a mixture of people who had family who had died and women who were going to receive news that they had had a false negative and had gone on to have cervical...

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)

Catherine Murphy: Will the Chairman put me on the list?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Vicky Phelan told us last night that sick women are contacting her. She is a sick women who is now fielding questions from other sick women. There has to be a person with whom they can engage directly because this is not fair.

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)

Catherine Murphy: Is there an organisational chart-----

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)

Catherine Murphy: -----with names on it?