Mr. Damien McCallion:

There are four we are aware of from the original work. The Deputy probably missed the earlier answer. The purpose of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists review was to come up with the facts and figures and give patients certainty over whether there was an issue with their audit results.

The second point is that it would give us facts on the nature of the cancer the individual patients had. In light of the fact that the consent rate from the group of 221 is relatively low, we are going to establish some of those facts but it will take some time to do so. We are gathering information from the cancer registry and the hospitals in order to arrive at a definitive number in respect of those who did not have cancer ultimately or had a different form of cancer. We will close that out.

The review by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was set up for that purpose. It is looking at the 3,100 cases. Of those, 1,800 would have had screening histories. It will give them clarity on their cancer and any other issues or not as the case may be. It should be borne in mind that close to 1,000 of these would have been diagnosed with cervical cancer through the programme. That is also good thing. Every two days, one women is diagnosed with cervical cancer through the cervical cancer screening programme. We need to balance that.