Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach has said that he defends the right of patients to know the full facts about their own health. The fact is that he has opposed a mandatory duty of candour. He failed to support it as Minister for Health in 2015 and he failed to support it again in February of this year when he was questioned by my colleague, Deputy O'Reilly. His failure in this area reinforces the State's strategy, which is to withhold information, to dodge liability and to aggressively face down patients - women, in this instance - and their families.

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