Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I have had a chance to look at some of the anomalies in the numbers. My interpretation of the July figures is that one relates to an eight year period of data or notifications whereas the other one relates to a seven and a half year period. I would say the difference between the 256 and the 286 or 288 is a seven and a half year period and an eight year period. My interpretation on the volume of correspondence is that they were recognising a backlog that had to be cleared in July-August 2016 and that once it was through that it would be in a steady-state of notifying four to six women per month, into the future, as false negative cases would have arisen. I think that is what explains those figures.