Mr. Cathal O'Keeffe:

There are probably two issues there. The first issue relates to the misdiagnoses in the first place. The second issue relates to the disclosing of that information. With regard to the misdiagnoses in the first place, we probably need to await more information from the scoping exercise to see exactly what issues lay behind those misdiagnoses. I am not sure we are in a position at the moment to make a comment on that. We need to learn what happened first before we are in a position to give any advice about it. That is the first thing to say.

With regard to the open disclosure issue, there has been a failure in open disclosure as my colleague, Ms Ann Duffy, has already said. We have already been in contact with the screening services and in view of what has happened, we will be redoubling our efforts and engaging with them on an ongoing basis to make sure the issue around open disclosure is properly managed going into the future. That is something we will be doing in partnership with the HSE.