Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have seen two versions of the question-and-answer session here and two drafts of press releases. In her role as national director for health and wellbeing, Dr. O'Keeffe was informed about this problem and had detailed meetings and all these items of correspondence commencing in February 2016. A lot of this was to inform the patient and if the story broke, they had all the information for the Minister up the line. Now Dr. O'Keeffe is telling me the first time she heard about the 200 patients not being informed was over two years later. Did she make no inquiries during the two years in which she was national director meeting these people month in, month out? To quote her words, she met them monthly. Did she never think of asking what had actually happened? She probably met them 20 times in the intervening period.