Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation

9:00 am

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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In fairness to the witnesses, it must be said that the answers they are giving are pretty direct. It has been a failure. It should not have happened. The labs were not inspected when cases were settled. These cases were not just about non-disclosure but were about potential negligence and in that context, the labs should have been inspected. Let us be honest about that.