Dr. John O'Brien:

The meetings that took place were initially meetings in the Department of Health with the medical officer in the Department. They were exploratory meetings fleshing out what I said earlier about the three streams of work - legislation, guidelines and the provision of a workable framework. There were three meetings hot on the heels of each other at that particular juncture but there were no meetings in the latter end of the summer. We had a meeting with the HSE more recently. It is not about who has been missing; it is just that it has not been happening.