James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

The Minister, like everyone else, understands motor cars. A two year old car with 300,000 miles on it is clapped out. The machine in question had a huge workload on it. The Minister cannot answer the question because she has not carried out an audit of these ultra sound machines, as she was asked to do. Will the Minister's new investigation address the issue of protocols, training and workload of both machines and staff? If a doctor's bleep goes off three times during the course of an examination, how in the name of God can one say that is a proper working environment in which a proper decision can be made about a patient?

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