Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----he is merely reflecting the views of the Irish people and I am saying that the Government should listen.

I call on the Taoiseach to intervene personally and meet Mr. Halappanavar to find out exactly what investigation would satisfy his concerns and those of his family. Everybody in this House wants to get to the truth of the matter, everybody wants to find out what happened and what can be done to avoid such similar circumstances in the future but, quite clearly, nobody has confidence in this investigation. I ask that the Taoiseach would intervene and sit down, discuss and come to an accommodation so that Parliament is not seen to be in conflict with a man who has lost his wife and who we could be dragging through the courts to access or attain her medical records. It is unseemly and unbelievable that at this stage we are still talking about this tragic issue. How much more must this family endure to try to come to the truth of what happened his late wife in Galway? The Minister should ask the Taoiseach to intervene in a personal human way, without the cameras and microphones, and sit down and try to find an accommodation with which everybody can be satisfied.

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