Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin:

I concur with Dr. Boylan on the consent issue. On the measure of safety, I urge the committee to widen its deliberations to consider serious morbidity which may include psychological and social morbidity. I believe we are measuring the wrong outcome if we look purely at mortality figures. The delegates at last week's meeting alluded to the fact that one could not see the national and sub-national data in mortality rates. One has to look for more qualitative data.