Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On page 9 of the transcript, Mr. O'Brien said "If I was unclear in my first answer, I need to restate it." He got an opportunity to restate and clarify his point. He continued:

I know the Deputy will allow me to do so. I referred in my first answer, when the Deputy asked me for what I was apologising, to a specific decision that was made to leave Grace in the foster home in the 1990s. This was made by a three-person panel, for want of a better word, and those three persons are no longer in the public service to be clear about that.

We have gone through all of this.

I can see Mr. O'Brien was interrupted but he clearly gave a message following on from the lead-in that the people who made the decision were no longer working. We know that is not accurate for the one he corrected today. We now know it is not accurate for the second person who has been identified and a question remains over how many others there are for whom it is not accurate.