Dr. Stephanie O'Keeffe:

From the managers' reports I have, which stated the process was going well, the fact that the programme was telling me that cases were appearing was an indication to me that this was actually happening. My expectation was that patients were being told. If they were not being told, it would be for a very small minority of cases where a clinical judgment was being made and where a consultant could stand over that. Our expectation was that we would be seeing cases coming forward as women were given this information. Within the October briefing, one will see it states that cases were starting to come through. The expectation was that women would be told. It is an incredible deep regret that this did not happen and that people had to be told in the way of this national controversy.