David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Bear with me. Mr. Gleeson is telling this committee that he was making an assumption on the basis that clinicians would have informed women. I am saying that is not tenable because, in 2016, Mr. Gleeson wrote the memo or was part of writing a memo that gave discretion to clinicians and if the woman had passed on, the next of kin would not be informed and it would simply be noted on her file. Mr. Gleeson's position is absolutely inconsistent because he was part of a number of people who wrote that memo that developed a strategy that women would not be informed or, at least, that they would limit the number of women who would be informed.