Dr. Stephanie O'Keeffe:

Deputy Cullinane raised two substantive issues, the last of which was very important. From my perspective, the period of time that it took the CervicalCheck programme, with the national screening service, to resolve the issue with Quest Diagnostics was quick. The lab had an opportunity to invoke a dispute resolution process. That was part of its contract. The screening service managed to resolve the issue quickly. The pause was for a three-month period. The process got back on track quickly so that, by October 2016, the bulk of the historical letters had issued.

The second important question that the Deputy asked was a genuine one around whether the open disclosure policy that they used at the time was right and fit for purpose. One of the things that we know from the fresh look-----