Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Another issue came as a bit of a surprise. There are many numbers being talked about. There was almost 1,500 and then there was another 1,500. I know that there are two different groups of individual cases. One relates to an audit and I am not quite sure to what the other group relates. There is confusion about the number of cases which were reviewed. I understand that some cancers would present without people having been screened and that there is nothing to look back at. We were told last night that there are five or six different categories and I have also seen that somewhere in the documentation we have received. Could we have some sort of brief outline of what exactly we are talking about with regard to all of the numbers that are out there? To be perfectly honest it is very difficult to reconcile them.