Dr. Tony Holohan:

What I would say to the Deputy in relation to this is it is not giving me new information that gives me a concern on the basis of what it is saying about the standard and performance of the screening programme at that time. It is giving me, in language that I would not use - when I look back now and see the language and how it might be interpreted I can see exactly what the Deputy is saying and I understand exactly why the Deputy is saying it - the arrangements that were put in train in relation to clinical audit and the arrangements that were put in place in relation to feeding information back to patients I saw at that time as developments that were ahead of most other countries in relation to screening and that is how I am interpreting it.