Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, essentially. The expert reference groups on interval cancer are involved in this. It is tricky because there can be a discordance that was flagged. The discordance may or may not have been due to negligence. It might be just, unfortunately as we have all become painfully aware, due to the limitations of the system. A discordance, in and of itself, is not necessarily a patient safety incident, which is why it does not neatly fit here. Essentially, what we are seeking is that where a discordance has been identified, where it is an identified patient - it cannot be done on the anonymised audits - and that patient seeks a look-back and a discordance was found, it would become a legal obligation to disclose to the patient that a discordance was found. The reason it does not fit neatly in here is that discordance may or may not end up having been a patient safety incident but for all the reasons we are very aware of, this is the opportunity to specifically address what happened and say that cannot ever happen again.