Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

If symphysiotomy survivors had been able, over the past 25 years, to have a monthly meeting with the Secretary General of the Taoiseach's Department or the Secretary General of the Department of Health and other powerful institutions of this State, they would not have been still trying to get justice up until very recently for the tragedy they endured and the injustice that was done.

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