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

I appreciate that. On the memo that was sent in March, which is the one Mr. Tony O'Brien said he saw, I want to quote what the director general said this morning. He said that the memo outlined that a communication process was going to be put in place. When pressed, he said that if the process had been carried through there would be no woman who was not informed. I do not know how that can be taken from that memo because nowhere in the memo does it say it will inform women. It says it will inform clinicians. The memo says the volume of letters increases the risk of an individual reacting to the content if or when shared by the attending clinician. It is not even clear from this that the attending clinician would share the information as it says "if" or "when".