Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I considered the factual position. As Deputy Kelly knows, when one is a Minister one is given advice and information and one then considers it and makes a decision. Some were of the valid view that Dr. Scally had recommended that a payment of €2,000 be made to people who engaged with this process because they went through considerable expense and inconvenience. Those who participated in the RCOG process also incurred costs and expenses in seeing clinicians and so on. I will be confirming that in writing. I know Deputy Bríd Smith did not ask about that directly but I thought it was pertinent to what she said.