Report of the Ministerial Inquiry into the Under-reporting of Cervical Smear Abnormalities in the Gisborne Region

Establishment of Inquiry

The Minister of Health by letter dated 15 October 1999 appointed Ailsa Patricia Duffy QC, Druiscilla Kapu Barrett and Gordon Wright as a committee of inquiry under section 47 of the Health and Disabilities Act 1993. Subsequently in February 2000 Gordon Wright resigned and in his place on 9 March 2000 the Minister appointed Máire Angela Duggan. The Minister also extended to the Committee of Inquiry, pursuant to s.47(3) of the Health and Disability Services Act the powers of a Commission of Inquiry under the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908.