Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry to cut across Mr. Breslin, but I am conscious of time. With the greatest of respect, that is not what happened. This was not business as usual. The HSE decided, correctly, to do an audit which was international best practice. It also decided, correctly, that it was going to communicate the results of those audits to the clinicians. I understand at the time CervicalCheck believed the clinicians would communicate that to the women. The HSE was doing something new. It was flagging issues to the Department and saying that it was about to communicate for the first time with hundreds of women around Ireland and tell them that they got a false negative that was likely to lead to a loss of confidence in the programme. This is not business as usual. That is the warning which was flagged to Mr. Breslin. I am asking the question for the fifth time.

Is that not the type of warning that should be escalated to a line Minister?