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

That is astonishing. It is unbelievable that a process was put in place for clinicians to inform their patients and nobody followed up on it to see whether it was happening. It fell off the agenda in October. Everyone was happy with the process. Who was responsible for following through on this? Who was responsible for checking that, as Mr. Gleeson put it, the loop was closed and clinicians were, in fact, informing their patients? Is it true to say that only one consultant raised concerns? Was there only one consultant who wrote at the time to CervicalCheck raising concerns that this was not the appropriate way for it to happen and it should be CervicalCheck that should be informing the women in the first place? The consultant in question, Dr. or Mr. Hickey - whatever his title is, I am not up to date on these medical terms - stated in his opinion it would be wrong of him to contact women who had no knowledge of an audit taking place and just to cold call them. He felt it was appropriate that CervicalCheck would make the initial contact. I have two questions. Did only one consultant raise concerns? Whose responsibility was it to ensure that the loop was closed? Everyone was happy in October that the process was going to happen, but nobody seems to have been responsible for ensuring it did happen. Whose responsibility was it to follow up to make sure the strategy put in place for informing women of these audit results was undertaken?