Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I should have said that it is extremely low. Then there are the 1,000 women who have experienced delays where the normal percentages obtain, but the delay is the concern.

I am not apportioning blame but the way the differentiation between these two sets of women was communicated on the one day was a complete disaster. I do not know what went on. I ended up doing a public service duty by going on national and local radio stations to talk about the differentiation and to say that a very low risk attached to 6,000. It is just an observation but what happened was a disaster. There was a mix-up somewhere along the line, which caused unnecessary confusion that we did not need. On this topic of all topics, we do not need additional confusion.