Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Deputy to listen to the answer. The management team reports on a daily basis to the director of the HSE, who now reports daily to the Minister in regard to progress on this issue. The Minister is taking a hands-on approach to progressing the issue properly.

As regards a lack of information, much of the information given to the House by the Minister as matters unfolded over the past week or so was gathered last weekend by audit teams sent into hospitals by the Minister to go through files to ensure we have a clear understanding of the numbers involved and so on. Contact has been made with women and families who should have had information far earlier but did not get it. It is likely to be a case of advisers to the Minister not having had the information, rather than it being withheld from him. We must consider how a management system within the HSE allowed that to happen.

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