Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

They accept that the Minister cannot be held accountable for mistakes in the reading of individual mammograms and ultrasounds while at the same time laying the blame for every clinical shortcoming at her door. As the Minister said last night, it is utterly unacceptable that the women first heard that there might be a problem with their ultrasound tests on the airwaves.

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