Dr. Stephanie O'Keeffe:

I have to stand over them because at the time I read them and I sent them on to individuals within the organisation who I understood needed to be briefed and understand them. It is important to say to the Deputy, and to other members here this morning, that those briefings were given in the context of either a verbal briefing before the person received it or a briefing at the time the person received it. In looking at those memorandums now, I can see all kinds of things. There was never an intention in the screening programme, for example, that those briefings being given to me would be distributed for the public. It was about trying to understand how it was that they were going to resolve the issue with regard to the challenge from the laboratories to send the letters to the consulting clinicians and what they were going to do about dealing with the historical cases.