David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I expect Mr. Breslin, as a public servant, to be in a position to say this was a systemic failure. Everybody outside this place believes it was a systemic failure. It is an open-and-shut case. There is nobody in the real world who believes this was not a systemic failure, except Accounting Officers who are not prepared to use the words. I cannot understand why Mr. Breslin, as an Accounting Officer for the Department of Health, cannot accept that what happened from the beginning to the end was as I describe. He, like the director general, is still not in a position today to give us some information indicating that this was a systemic failure. I refer to women not being informed of a misdiagnosis, false readings or bad readings.