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Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: In fairness, it was more than an assumption because I have the transcript to hand. I said: "Is the person who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed in this room?" Dr. Connors said: "Can I answer that? I think the answer is 'No.'"

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Was Mr. Gleeson, in fact, the person who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: No.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: However, Mr. Gleeson was part of that teleconference call on 20 April.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Hang on a second. The question I asked was not about any specific meeting or teleconference call because I would not have been aware of any meetings or teleconference calls. The question I asked was: "Is the person who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed in this room?" Mr. Gleeson said "No."

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: However, that is not what we are being told now.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: So Mr. Gleeson told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed or that their clinicians had informed them.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Why did Mr. Gleeson not say that at the meeting?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I think Mr. Gleeson is trying to play with words because the question was very clear on my behalf. I asked who informed the State Claims Agency. Mr. Gleeson informed the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed or their treating clinicians had informed them. The impression given to the State Claims Agency during that teleconference call on 20 April was that all women had been...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Was it Mr. Breen's impression after that teleconference call that one way or another, all women had been informed?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: What would Mr. Breen say in relation to Mr. Gleeson who is now saying that could not have been the information he gave Mr. Breen because nobody from CervicalCheck would have been aware of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Gleeson is trying to tell me today that when I asked: "Is the person who told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed in this room?", the reason he answered "No" was because he could not have told them that because he is now saying that the assumption was the clinicians had informed them.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: However, Mr. Gleeson just heard from the State Claims Agency that the information that it is saying it got from Mr. Gleeson was that all women had been informed.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Gleeson is playing with words now. This is a very serious issue. When everyone left this room there was a clear assumption made and there was a clear narrative being put forward by Mr. Gleeson that neither he nor anybody else from CervicalCheck even had a conversation with the State Claims Agency about it being informed that all women were told. That was the narrative put forward at...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I asked Mr. Gleeson if he had informed the State Claims Agency that all women were informed and he said, "No".

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is that still Mr. Gleeson's position today?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have a transcript here and I want to be helpful. The witness, on 20 April, said that he told the State Claims Agency that all women had been informed or it was his assumption that all women had been informed. However, he knew on 20 April that was not the case because he gave evidence to this committee stating that he became aware that it was not the case when the Vicky Phelan case became...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Gleeson gave evidence to this committee stating that he knew, on 20 April, that that was not a true assumption.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Gleeson knew that was not the case on 20 April.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Jonathan O'Brien: The witness knew it because he gave evidence to this committee to that effect, which I have here.