Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to address the following matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Health and Children to explain her silence and inaction on the miscarriage misdiagnosis issue given that she has now admitted that she was aware of the case at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth, since August 2009 yet has failed to show that either she, her Department or the HSE considered the wider implications or the possibility that women in other hospitals may have had the same experience; and the need to explain why it was only after the matter received widespread publicity that the HSE ordered its current review of cases in the past five years.

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