Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I am telling the Minister that was the case in March. I want to go back to the timeline. I think the Minister accepted the reason things were published and processed was because of the article in The Ditch. I want to go all the way back to last year. Does the Minister know that the first freedom of information requests, FOIs, from the journalist, Pádraig Ó Meiscill, were submitted in October, then the surgeries or kyphectomies were suspended in November and then the internal review started? Does the Minister accept the reason this whole thing kickstarted was not because of some internal process, it was because of external FOIs from a journalist?

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