Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On the same issue of open disclosure legislation and in regard to Portlaoise hospital, families have been calling for this legislation. It was originally promised by the former Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, in the Chamber. It was then promised by the former Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly and now we seem to be seeing some sort of row-back. Families are being dragged through the courts at enormous cost to the health service and the HSE. Yesterday, the Minister for Health informed us that it is too costly to hold anybody to account for what happened in Portlaoise. I consider this entirely unacceptable and would like to hear the Taoiseach's view on that.

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