Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The Minister of State has been committed to providing a better system of accountability in this area, to ensuring that we have the facts and he is arranging to obtain them with the experts he has appointed. We will do whatever is necessary in the House to provide the legal basis for that to happen. In the meantime, the HSE has indicated that it will validate the exact figures as soon as possible.

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