Mr. Damien McCallion:

I will provide the figures as of last Friday. There have been 38 requests for slides, of which two are outstanding. The average turnaround time was 22 days over that period.

As the Deputy said, some of the slides should definitely have been released in a much more timely fashion. To touch on one of the other points made by the Deputy, we have a process where a HSE team which was established following the crisis does nothing but deal with recording of slides and requests from women and their solicitor. Some women request them directly, while others do so through their solicitor. It is an internal team, for which there is legal support. As I said, the average figure is 22 days.