Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The whole issue concerning the manner in which the criteria were set down and not followed is essentially part of the problem. One cannot have faith in the results generated from them, not just from individual examples but from the manner in which criteria were not executed in the way it was claimed they would.

Three women’s slides were mislabelled, those of Lorraine Walsh and Vicky Phelan and one other woman. Lorraine Walsh is the patient advocate who is participating in the programme. We have the details of the two reports. Of the 1,038 women, Ms Walsh is one of three whose slides were mislabelled. As she outlined in detail, there are two reports, one of which came 24 hours after the other. Both stated the complete opposite, based on the fact that they could not find the slide that they did not know existed.