Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Asking the women to sign a waiver against making future claims may be desirable from the women's point of view in respect of the recurrence of the same cancer, and I am not talking about getting cancer of the eye or the brain later. If, however, the Minister's intention is to get women to partake and participate in the tribunal, there is a danger that this will discourage them from participating. It would be a block. None of us, apart from the Chairman, is a doctor or scientist but in practical terms if we are trying to support and acknowledge the failures of the system, the State and CervicalCheck in dealing with women's health, and we are acknowledging it in a way that is real, then asking the women to sign a waiver in the case of their future health is very unreasonable. It will deter women from participating.