Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Where even to start? I do not want to say something which is inaccurate. I want to try and get the timeline in my own head. Maybe Mr. Breslin can agree or, if it is wrong, he or whoever can correct me.

In relation to the timeline, an audit was carried out. That was the first step. There was then a decision taken that the results of that audit should be communicated. We can say that whether it should have been communicated with the clinicians or with the women is a matter of opinion right now, based on the memos we have just got.

I presume there was a decision then to relay that decision to the laboratories, so somebody must have picked up the phone to the laboratories and said that he or she was going to relay the outcome of the audit to either the clinicians or the women as part of the HSE's open disclosure policy. The laboratories objected to that. They issued legal letters in relation to that outlining their opposition to the results of the audits being communicated - I will not say being made public - to clinicians or women. Is that correct?