Ms Siobh?n McArdle:

From a departmental perspective, we have not conducted research, so we do not have the information the Deputy is requesting in terms of the safeguards. The HSE statement, as Dr. Ní Bhriain has pointed out, is based on that review of preparation for attendance today, so it is coming from the clinical perspective. If this matter is to be progressed by the Government, then the Department of Health would undertake to commission research to look at those factors and to identify those safeguards put in place in other jurisdictions, their effectiveness and what the outcome of those has been.