Mr. Ciarán Breen:

The Deputy will be aware that there are co-defendant laboratories in those cases. I previously discussed the issue of non-disclosure with the Deputy and other committee members. The substantive liability and causation issues are issues for the laboratories. The assessment of negligence, whether a negligent misread or a false negative, falls for determination by them, having regard to their expert report. They do not normally share that kind of information with us.