Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the Tánaiste. I think the most impactive thing for me in the campaign over the past number of months was the personal stories that complete strangers would tell you on the doorstep much less in public fora. People, I could name them, came to meetings around the country and in my constituency of Wexford to talk and share their experiences for the first time. Those stories cannot be untold. They cannot be unsaid. They cannot be hidden again and they cannot be ignored again. The only way to address them properly is, obviously, a "Yes" vote.

A campaign on vaccination and screening is required. It is good to say there is strong uptake but it will be undermined if people's concerns are not addressed. The Government needs to step up and understand that and promote and explain screening. That can only be done by complete transparency and open disclosure and by addressing the issue of anybody who actually has been wronged by a system through a non-adversarial system of redress.

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