Tom Clonan (Independent)
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Will the Department issue a statement to the effect that it has failed? That intellectual honesty would provide a good starting point for us to move forward. Both the Department of Health and the HSE have failed. It is not that they are failing or are struggling; they have failed. They have failed thousands of children like my son, all the people who are in contact with me and all the parents I will meet at the protests over the coming weeks. They have failed them. That is it; that is their starting point. Their starting point is from a standing position of failure. We had that intellectual honesty to a certain extent with the financial crash. The troika came here and we had to acknowledge that we had failed. The Department and the HSE need to do that. I asked them if they would make a statement to that effect today. Will they answer that question please?