Government to sign off on CervicalCheck tribunal

A tribunal to hear and determine claims from women and families impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal is to get Government sign-off today. The tribunal would be less adversarial and quicker and would mean that the 221 women involved and their families could avoid difficult and costly legal proceedings.

It comes as the State Claims Agency confirmed it is to appeal a High Court judgment which awarded €2.1m in damages to Ruth Morrissey, who is terminally ill with cervical cancer. Ms Morrissey and her husband Paul sued the HSE and two US laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and Medlab Pathology Ltd, over an an alleged failure to correctly report her smear samples taken in 2009 and 2012.