Mr. Mark Molloy:

Deputy Ó Caoláin asked about each new management level and if we were aware of them or believed them. Very early on, as Róisín will say, we were very upset at these meetings and we would believe anything we were told. We had to learn to swallow it if we were to get some answers. We came away from many meetings saying, "That is it now, somebody is going to learn from this, we will get answers, it will be great". Suddenly, weeks would go by and there would be no answer or action. Once the Savita Halappanavar story broke, we knew there was a reaction. Mark had died nine months earlier and the HSE had told us we could not do this or that and policies had not stated this, that or the other. Suddenly, there was a total departure and an ad hocreaction to Savita's death. It took ten weeks to nominate an obstetric consultant externally for Mark's investigation and it took four days in Galway. Mr. Praveen Halappanavar's account of events were seen as central but we were not allowed participate in Mark's investigation.