HSE urged to release contracts of US smear test labs

The HSE will be urged today to release the full contracts of the US laboratories at the centre of the cervical cancer tests scandal amid ongoing and disputed claims that access to key records is being covered up.

The Dáil public accounts committee will insist on the move at an internal meeting this morning after giving the HSE until the end of this week to make the records available to them.

In a lengthy meeting last week, PAC members repeatedly rounded on acting HSE director general John Connaghan and his officials over the failure to release the contracts immediately to the independent inquiry examining the scandal.