David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. When the serious incident management team did its review of the audit it established that there were 208 women who should have been communicated with and that 175 cases received an interpretation different from the original smear result. Based on the opinion of the review team, this would have led to a different clinical escalation. My problem with Mr. O'Brien is that he is putting up a straw man argument that this process in not infallible, a fact which we all accept. He is putting up a straw man argument that he cannot be held to account because of the actions of individuals in his organisation. He accused Deputy MacSharry of trying, in the case of Emma Mhic Mhathúna, to create the impression that the false diagnosis had some consequence on her being diagnosed with cervical cancer.