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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)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is a simple "Yes" or "No".

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is Mr. O'Brien responsible for systemic failures but not systems failures?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is a simple question. Is Mr. O'Brien, as the director general of the HSE, responsible for systemic failures? If it was a systemic failure, is it correct that Mr. O'Brien would resign?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: If it was a systemic failure, would Mr. O'Brien take full responsibility for it and resign? As it is a systems failure, Mr. O'Brien refuses to take responsibility for it.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is fair enough, but I am not about to give Mr. O'Brien a get-out-of-jail card. I have one final question. I know other members want to come in. To me, a systems failure would be if a decision was taken to inform the women and then that decision did not happen.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: For me, a systemic failure is when the body decides it should tell people but decides to leave it to somebody else and at somebody else's discretion. That is a systemic failure because there was no firm decision taken to inform the women. That was in February 2016, through the circular. It was not until 30 April 2018 that the HSE changed that position and said that each hospital group was...

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Up to 30 April, there was ambiguity around this issue on whether women should be told or who was responsible for telling them or whether it was at somebody's discretion to tell them. Yes or no?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is a systemic failure which Mr. O'Brien does not take responsibility for.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: I asked Mr. O'Brien as simple question and he will not answer.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is Mr. O'Brien responsible for systemic failures within the HSE or not responsible for systems failures? Yes or no?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Not when we are trying to establish who was responsible for them.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: I know Mr. O'Brien needs to get away to Limerick, so I will be very brief. He said that the central issue, apart from the trauma for the women involved, was the failure to follow through on the planned communication to inform the women. He said that if the process had been carried through, there would be no women who were not informed. Is that is correct?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: We now know that that process did not happen.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: We will come back to this again. In my opinion, that is a systemic failure. In Mr. O'Brien's opinion, it is a systems failure. Is that correct?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Then tell me your opinion.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am asking Mr. O'Brien whether it was a systems failure, yes or no?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: But Mr. O'Brien is not responsible for that.

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Is Mr. O'Brien responsible for systems failures within the HSE, yes or no?

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)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is not what I am asking Mr. O'Brien. I am asking if he is responsible for systems 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)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. O'Brien has not yet answered the question of whether he is responsible for systems failures within the HSE. It is a "yes" or "no" answer.