Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The suffering of all of the women who have been caught up in the events arising from breast cancer services in Portlaoise, and indeed in other places, has been immense. It did not take graphic accounts of the anxiety, uncertainty, disbelief and anger expressed by a number of the women concerned for the rest of us to understand the enormity of the distress that has been created.

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