David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I am certainly not going to give Mr. Gleeson or anyone else a way out. Everyone outside this room and some within it believe that those women should have been given the information. In fact, Stephen Teap said yesterday that if someone had information and did not share it, that person was covering up. Mr. Gleeson is one of those - there may be others in the room - who wrote that circular, had no difficulty at the time with giving consultants discretion in informing women and signed off on a strategy that allowed for the next of kin of those women who had passed away not to be informed and only to have the information noted on the women's files. Mr. Gleeson is one of the people who made that decision. Like many others who have questions to answer, he has not to my knowledge given a satisfactory answer as to why he did so. Does he still stand over the fact that he and others took a decision that allowed women not to be informed of their misdiagnoses?