The Health Service Executive (HSE) has defended its record following comments by the judge who chaired the inquiry into the hysterectomies carried out by Dr Michael Neary.
At a conference in Dublin yesterday, Judge Maureen Harding Clark criticised the HSE for failing to implement her report's recommendations.
She said there had been "no follow through" by HSE regional management on her report, which was published two months ago.
However, speaking on RTÉ radio this morning, Tom Flynn of the HSE National Hospital Office denied the judge's remarks were true.
Mr Flynn said: "One of the recommendations was that there would be an audit system put in place nationally.
Within three days of the report being published the National Hospital Office of the HSE announced the establishment of a National Epidemiology Centre in Cork for the audit and the research into maternity services nationally to bring it up to the standard of in particular Australian levels; that was done within three days."
He said that the executive management board at Drogheda hospital had been given the go ahead at an early stage.
"The process is well advanced including the positions in the Lourdes Hospital," he said.
Green Party spokesperson on health John Gormley said: "It is an insult to the women who suffered at the hands of Dr Neary that two months after the publication of this report there is still no executive management board in place."