Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Ms Walsh could not be more absolute about that.

Do the witnesses believe that all the women affected should be offered an independent review as outlined? That has not been confirmed yet by the Government. We know the issues about the supports and the one outstanding issue, namely, the €2,000 award. That still has to be confirmed but will be, hopefully, in the coming days by the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, who must sign an order. That is where we are now.

Lorraine Walsh went into the RCOG process, the criteria and the slides. There is quite a level detail on the process around the slide availability and who was part and should be part of that process. Then there was the detail about the letters sent out about being concordant, discordant and the fact that there was not a third category which is basically unknown. Will the witnesses outline the criteria where the RCOG process from the beginning did not work? How did that then manifest itself through slides missing, as well as discordant versus concurrent and the fact that there was not a third category. That is a critical issue. How can there not be a third category? How can there not be a category where slides are missing?