Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I do not want to get into all the sides of the argument. I was shown what happened over an enormous amount of weekends. There was a problem on a certain weekend and then a campaign was lined up around that weekend. The information I received related to the number of victims presenting for examination and treatment. I was told there is a sexual assault reporting rate of nine for every 100,0000. I was also told that the services had been provided way beyond that. I do not know whether they had or had not. The fact is that a coherent argument was made to the effect that there was a major problem on the weekend in question. I took up the matter on that weekend. I received all kinds of figures to show that adequate numbers of staff are available. The case in question relates to one doctor. I do not intend to get into an argument about why a doctor was not in the Rotunda Hospital on a certain weekend. People were rostered.

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