Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise the following matter of serious national importance, namely, the fact that nine patients in the north east had a missed diagnosis of lung cancer, thus losing valuable time for their essential medical treatment, that at least one of these patients would have had a major chance of their cancer being cured, that others had their lives shortened by a valuable period of months and that eight of these patients have since died; and the need now for an independent inquiry into why a clear warning given seven years ago by a consultant radiologist to the health authorities that the radiologists in the hospitals concerned were under intolerable stress, that a dangerous situation existed for patients and staff and that mistakes would be made was ignored by the same health authorities.

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