David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In that circumstance is there anything stopping the State from stating it will compensate each of the women concerned? Notwithstanding whether they take cases, there is an established and accepted failure. Rather than wait for them to go through the courts which they are entitled to do and separate from the fact that they can take the laboratory to court, there is an established acceptance of failure on the part of the HSE and the State and it can now compensate the women concerned.