Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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968. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims made against the State by women who allege their Cervical Check smear tests were misread, or their families, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2025, and the number of these which have been settled, in tabular form. [17189/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The State Claims Agency (SCA) has a statutory remit to manage personal injury claims on behalf of State Authorities.

The SCA has provided me with the information set out below.

The information contained within this response was extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

The State Claims Agency (SCA) has received 403 CervicalCheck claims between 01/01/2015 and 01/04/2025 including 83 psychological claims brought by family members. In relation to the 403 claims received in the last 10 years, 314 have been concluded.

The SCA cannot give a definite figure for CervicalCheck cases settled given the nature of the cases, some may be resolved by the laboratory and the SCA may not be privy to the outcome. Claims can be concluded by a number of means; including case settled, court award, indemnity received (from co-defendant or third party), claim discontinued or statute barred, and claim intimated but not pursued.

Table 1: CervicalCheck claims received between 01/01/2015 and 01/04/2025.