Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I know from some of the parents that the doctors they brought their children to were at a loss as to what could be the reason for the symptoms they were presenting with. It appeared that, from what I have been told, they had nowhere to go with their inquiries into why these girls were presenting with these symptoms. There was a real problem there. The World Health Organization report that the Minister mentioned will be interesting. These are very ill girls and it seems we are saying that we do not know what caused it and we will not investigate. That does them a disservice because their lives have changed. Some of the parents have been circulating video clips of their daughters to make people aware of it. It is gruesome to see the physical change between what they were like to what they are like now. Something is causing this change and the HSE should be coming forward to investigate it. We owe it to them.

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