Mr. Damien McCallion:

Have consented to date, yes that is correct. Overall the consent rate is quite good at this stage and is close to 60%. It is 57% at the moment and this will continue. We still have to contact the next of kin, and there are people who will come in later and who are still contacting us. Overall the rate of consent is good, but within the 221 cases of women who were affected, it is just 31%. All of this information is being pulled together because patients are interested in it and it also has a general public interest. Primarily, however, it is patients and patient representatives who are interested in terms of planning the supports for those people. We have spoken to them and we intend to get one of our healthcare audit team members to undertake the clinical status and the factual position. The RCOG audit is a much more comprehensive audit and will look at the smear tests, the colposcopies and the treatment options. It is a much further clinical review. We will do that and we intend to have it done this side of Christmas. It will take a number of weeks to do it. The original intention, and the reason we were not doing it was because that was the purpose of the RCOG audit.