HSE refusal to answer on cancer audit ‘unacceptable’

The HSE has been accused of withholding information after refusing to provide answers on when each of the hospital group managers was told of the 2014 cervical cancer test audit.

Vice-chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Alan Kelly, has said he asked for the information on May 3, before the Scally investigation was established.

However, Health Minister Simon Harris responded by stating that the question “related to matters which are now the subject of a scoping inquiry” and so could not provide these details.