Mr. Peter Tyndall:

The issue there is complex. Had the assisted decision-making service been brought in quickly, it would have provided an appropriate route to enable those women to access the scheme. When early on it became obvious that service was not going to be introduced quickly, an alternative mechanism should have been put in place. It took the instigation of my investigation for those alternative mechanisms to be explored. As I have said, even at the moment we do not believe that they are being explored vigorously enough. Women continue to die without access to the redress to which they are undeniably entitled. There is no ambiguity about that.