Mr. Jim Breslin:

I am not describing it as business as usual. Business as usual was when the programme was set up and I put the other extreme as being the very intense position in which we find ourselves. There is no doubt that in tackling a backlog of audit results and engaging with women, it was further along, but the judgment made was that it was not, within the gamut of issues being managed across the health service, of sufficient scale. It was being dealt with in an appropriate fashion according to a good, open approach with women, and the judgment was that it did not need to be escalated.