Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to do the work of the scoping inquiry. It has a job to do. I will ask a couple of questions. We know there were six memos. The first was in February and the last was in October. The one in February talks about the laboratories looking at legal advice and the four steps. I can understand the rationale behind all of those steps when it is put in the context of what was happening. The issue was not the audit process but the communication of the results of that audit process to women. The very last memo, which is from October, said that there was now an engagement between CervicalCheck and the consultant doctors, which would be an ongoing process to inform women. Dr. O'Keeffe said the communication with the stakeholders and patients was being appropriately managed at this time. At that stage in October, is it fair to say that Dr. Holohan and Dr. O'Keeffe were of the opinion that this was being addressed, women were going to be informed through their clinicians and that was the instruction that was given? Was that the witnesses' understanding and, as far as they were concerned, there was no need to escalate it up the line? Is that a fair assessment?