Mr. John Connaghan:

Let me take the committee through the position on redaction. I met with Mr. Scally last week. We had previously sought, at the back end of last week, a section 40C direction from the Minister which would allow us to supply everything to Mr. Scally on an unredacted basis.

We had previously supplied redacted documents. We, therefore, worked over the weekend to re-provide all of those documents. My belief is - I have been told - that all of those have been supplied as of the close of play last night. I will just check again that that has been done.

Dr. Scally is comfortable in so far as he tells me that if there is something, particularly in relation to patient confidentiality - this will be very, very rare - we will take that out because we need to preserve some of the interests of the patients in this as well. All of that should be provided.

In relation to the provision and searchability of documents, one of the things that hampered the position between Dr. Scally and the HSE right at the very outset was the different platforms that we had in terms of their use and searchability. We have made recommendations - I think Dr. Scally has taken these board - that we invest in an appropriate eDiscovery platform which can search anything. For the very few instances where we do not have original documentation that can be searched through the normal Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Pro, we can use eDiscovery platforms with OCR to be able to identify everything. We are now on that. My position, just now, is that we have certainly turned the corner in the course of the development over the last week.