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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)

Jonathan O'Brien: This goes back to the e-mail sent by Mr. Connaghan to several individuals on 11 May. He outlined the purpose of the communications strategy. I wish to go back to what Mr. Breslin said earlier about why that particular strategy was not communicated up the line. This is the difficulty I have and this is why I am struggling to get my head around it. There is a communications strategy in...

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is progressing well because there was drip-feeding of the letters to clinicians.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: That would be because the Secretary General would not be aware of 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)

Jonathan O'Brien: I put it to Mr. Breslin that the communications strategy failed because the Minister was caught.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Who was responsible for that?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Who is responsible for that?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will come back on the figure of 20% of women. I want to ask Mr. Gleeson several questions in the second round. Let us go back to the communications strategy. There is a reference in the March document to the communications strategy being developed between CervicalCheck and the media within the HSE. I will have to double-check the details because it could be the October document, but...

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: There seems to be a lot of people at senior level within the HSE and the Department who were made aware of nothing.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is simply not credible that there is no coincidence. It is no coincidence that people in senior levels of the Department are not aware of things - this is simply my opinion. It is no coincidence that senior members of the communications division within the HSE are not made aware of things. The former director general of the HSE was not made aware of things. There seems to be a level at...

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: There were draft press releases. Is that 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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Will Dr. Connors get a copy for the committee?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: This is one of the questions that was not answered. We asked if we could have a copy of the communications strategy and it has not yet been provided.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: We have draft press releases.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: I disagree. Three options were given for informing women and I will return to these. There was certainly no intention to inform the families of women who had passed away. That is explicit in the documentation we have and it was attached to their medical files. In terms of other women, the approach was to inform them of the audit if it was considered appropriate, to do so at the...

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: We asked for 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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Copies should be provided to everyone, to save them from printing 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)

Jonathan O'Brien: My recollection, when the question was asked, is that I brought it up and asked what was the nature of it. The information was given that the four of them are claims of misdiagnosis. That will be on the transcripts.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: I do not want to do the work of the scoping inquiry. It has a job to do. I will ask a couple of questions. We know there were six memos. The first was in February and the last was in October. The one in February talks about the laboratories looking at legal advice and the four steps. I can understand the rationale behind all of those steps when it is put in the context of what was...

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: We now know that there was a breakdown in that. Clinicians did not inform women. Dr. Holohan and Dr. O'Keeffe said that they did not become aware of this until recent weeks, when this all came out after Vicky Phelan's case. Somebody must have been aware in those intervening periods where there was an understanding that all of the women would be informed through their clinicians. The...

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Who informed Dr. McKenna of that?