Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Surely the Department must have been concerned. There was an accumulation of results and the bigger the numbers, the greater the problem was going to be. This was identified in February 2016.

However, by September or October 2017 we still did not have the process fully in place about advising the patients and their families. We are talking about a period of 18 months. People surely must have become concerned at that stage.