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Scally Review into CervicalCheck controversy cost over €1 million

The Scally Review into the CervicalCheck screening programme cost more than €1 million. This in...
Eoghan Murphy
Eoghan Murphy

12.48 28 Aug 2019


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Scally Review into CervicalChe...

Scally Review into CervicalCheck controversy cost over €1 million

Eoghan Murphy
Eoghan Murphy

12.48 28 Aug 2019


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The Scally Review into the CervicalCheck screening programme cost more than €1 million.

This includes payments to lawyers, a communications agency and doctors.

The Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck was set up in May 2018 after the legal case involving Vicky Phelan, who received €2.5 million over an incorrect smear test.

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After follow-up work was complete - including a supplementary report - Dr Gabriel Scally's inquiry finished in June 2019.

Documents released to Newstalk under the Freedom of Information Act show the total cost of the project was just over €1 million including VAT.

Gabriel Scally Consultants Limited has submitted five invoices to the Department of Health, related to the initial report and supplementary work.

They include fees of €145,000 to Dr Scally personally, €58,000 for legal advice and €43,000 for work carried out by Q4PR, a communications agency.

The Crowe consulting team helped with logistical, project-management and other support work during the review - its costs came to just over €400,000.

Main image: Dr Gabriel Scally holds a copy of the Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme. Picture by: Brian Lawless/PA Archive/PA Images

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