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

I disagree. Three options were given for informing women and I will return to these. There was certainly no intention to inform the families of women who had passed away. That is explicit in the documentation we have and it was attached to their medical files. In terms of other women, the approach was to inform them of the audit if it was considered appropriate, to do so at the appropriate time, and to ascertain whether it could do more harm than good to inform them. I presume this means if it would do more harm than good to the women rather than the organisation. There were, therefore, three different strands for informing women. In my opinion, there was never an intention to inform every woman because none of the documentation I have seen suggests that was the case. I will address many of these issues to Mr. Gleeson when I make my second contribution. It is astonishing that there is a lack of communication between senior management and middle management across all the organisation and people were not informed. That is not a coincidence. It stinks.