Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There was no default position of concordance. That is something that came out of yesterday's meeting. I do not really know why, but it left me uncomfortable and last night I was wondering if the results are as I read them initially.

In terms of the labelling issues, there is continuous reference to the idea that a person would be as likely to win the Euromillions as to have this happen to her, which is just ridiculous because the sum is not right. In terms of looking at people's smears, there was no indication given to slide readers or operatives of who the slides belonged to. Is that not true? The process was totally anonymous. The slide readers knew that the person had cancer, because that was obviously the trigger, but they did not know it was my smear, Deputy Bríd Smith's smear or whatever. They did not know who it was. It is unfair for people to suggest that particular people were being looked at through a different lens. I think there is some element of that going on.