Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not wish to delay proceedings but I just want to say one thing. I deal with a good number of queries, like every other Member of the Oireachtas, I am sure, that allege medical negligence. I have come across quite a number of such cases in which nothing ever happened, despite the fact that an incident took place and there was clearly a need to address the issues concerned. I dealt with one case not so long ago in which a member of another profession became hysterical when I probed why the matter was not progressing because there needed to be a response, not in five or ten years' time, but soon.