One of several groups that represent women who underwent a controversial childbirth operation has called on the Department of Health to abandon a report it commissioned under former minister Mary Harney.
Survivors of Symphysiotomy says it will run its own consultation process and channel its views through its own national executive.
The Department of Health commissioned an independent academic report from UCC professor Oonagh Walsh.
The first part of that report, published earlier this month, said one of the reasons the procedure was used was because of laws influenced by the Catholic Church, which banned contraception and sterilisation.
The second phase will involve consultation with women who had symphysiotomies.
The procedure broke the woman's pelvis to ease childbirth and was often carried out without consent and instead of a Caesarean section.
It was carried out in hospitals in Ireland from the 1940s to the 1990s.
In many cases it led to incontinence, chronic pain, reduced mobility, prolapsed organs and nerve damage.
Another representative group, Survivors of Symphysiotomy Limited, which is associated with Patient Focus, wants its members to cooperate with the second phase of the Walsh inquiry.
It also wants a redress scheme to be made available to the women.
