Dr. Tony Holohan:

In retrospect I would like if I was able to say that we had asked that question. That question was not asked as part of the interrogation. As the Deputy said, we are speaking with the benefit of hindsight. I gave him a sense of the primary purpose of the assurances we would give to a Minister in that situation and the role of that. I can go through that in more detail. On our index of suspicion, so to speak, regarding what has now come to pass that there was a widespread - I will not say systemic - practice whereby discordant smear test results were not being fully fed back to patients, there was nothing in that note that could reasonably be said on the basis of what it said at the time to give any reasonable index of suspicion that that was the case - that that would be a reasonable line of questioning.