Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

How many more lapses will we have where the Minister says it is not her task to meddle and that she did not know about it? She has said she attended a meeting about something else at which somebody whispered in her ear, in passing, that there might be a problem in regard to X-rays. However, she claims she did not know the scale of the problem until yesterday. Any Minister who seriously asks this House to accept that he or she did not know about the scale of an issue such as this until yesterday is a Minister who should stay in New Zealand.

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