John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not pointing the finger. The most the important point Ms Hardiman made in her opening statement was on the complexity of this space and the operations that are necessary, the high-risk nature of them and the space in which surgeons are operating. I do not mean the space in which they are physically operating but the environment in which they are operating. Certainly, some of the correspondence I have seen seems to suggest that experimental techniques or thinking outside the box a little is very much a part of this. The correspondence Ms Hardiman says she did not get suggests adopting an approach with a piece of equipment for which that equipment was not designed, but for which it seems it could be used. Ms Hardiman is saying that she is not aware of that. The reason I raise this is that if that were the case, would it not reduce what Ms Hardiman has described as alarmingly unapproved devices? It seems to suggest that there would have been a record of discussion about alternatives to approved devices, and that seems to be a theme. I suppose that is what I am trying to drive at.