Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Last week the Taoiseach, the commander in chief, made his great announcement but a week later it seems nothing has happened. There is to be a central contact person who will contact the 209 women through the hospitals but things need to happen more quickly.

Last week we were given three memos, one dated March 2016 and the other two dated July. In the pack that came last night there was a very similar memo, dated February 2016, which mentioned the pausing of letters, waiting for advice from solicitors, reactive communications, media headlines about screening not diagnosing and so on. How many other versions of this letter are there and how far do they go back?