Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

What disturbs me is that this has been presented as normal. It is normal because there is a failure rate and everybody should know so really the women should have known. I do not like that because it suggests it was the women's fault because they did not know that there would be a 30% failure rate. All of this stuff makes really interesting reading in the documentation provided so far. The reason for this is that one can see a clear escalation in terms of the number of cases and what people were thinking along the way. If we go to the March 2016 briefing note, we see the logging of cases. Work is under way by the State Claims Agency to extend the architecture of the national incident management system to facilitate logging of incident cases for screening programmes. That would suggest that we know that we have something here that may escalate. What I am trying to get at is people's awareness of the existence of a really big problem. How often do normal meetings to brief the Minister about what is happening take place?