Mr. Mark Molloy:

On Deputy Regina Doherty’s question about the meeting in October 2013, it was quite a short meeting. At that stage, it had been 20 months since we had copied the original letter to the director of national quality and patient safety. We had a meeting with him the previous December after meeting his own national incident management team four weeks beforehand.

When we got to this stage, it was 20 months after Mark’s death. We had the 43 recommendations and we went to hear how they were going to be implemented. When we were told they were here to listen, we said politely that it was the end of the meeting.

We were given assurances the recommendations would be implemented. It was not until Tony Holohan went in after the “Prime Time” programme that some of the recommendations started to be implemented. We were given that assurance. We were also given an assurance by the director of advocacy that the investigation into non-clinical matters would be progressed and finished in a shorter timeframe. As I said earlier, it still is not complete today. It was quite a short meeting. We had had enough at that stage of lip service.