Their report was made public by the Tánaiste, and Minister for Health Mary Harney in February 2006. Harding-Clarke's report repeated many findings of the Medical Council's investigation (which she criticised for taking too long), but delved much deeper into Neary's actions, and those of his colleagues.The Inquiry found that Neary carried out 129 of 188 peripartum hysterectomies carried out in the hospital over a 25-year period, some on very young women of low parity. The average consultant obstetrician carries out 5 or 6 of these operations in their entire career.