Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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I did not think I would be first up to speak. It is nearly a shame to be reached first in that one gets so many questions, and generally speaking, people who go before one ask some of them. I want to focus on Dr Higgins's submission first of all. As a member of a party in government, it is enormously frustrating for me to read that kind of criticism, because it is entirely justified. I would like to drill down into this. Dr. Higgins's organisation advised against preliminary team assessment, PTA, and told people it was wrong. They went ahead and then the courts told them they were wrong and 10,000 of them had to be reviewed. It is frustrating to the point of anger. Dr. Higgins's organisation has still not been consulted about the new one. What were the specific concerns the witness raised with the HSE before the courts found the PTA was wrong? Was it those specific concerns that were then subsequently vindicated by the court?