Dr. Siobh?n N? Bhriain:

There is not an existing working group. What we did was use our existing governance structures to do some work and consideration, as I outlined to the committee before. We have a group, within the clinical leadership, where we meet on a regular basis to discuss issues of concern, interest and information with that group. We use that forum to have the conversation.

In fairness to the Department, I also had a conversation with Ms McArdle prior to this where we were just conscious of our timing and wanted to, from the clinical side, bring up the clinical issues and then bring up the policy issues as well from the departmental side.

In response, we have worked at this through existing governance structures and in an existing group. That is a clinical group. I know that if legislation was to be introduced, there would be a wider working group to look at it.