Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste stated that he encourages questions but he has just shown that he is not very good at giving answers. The Taoiseach, while in the seat in which the Tánaiste is now sitting, promised that the review would be completed by the end of May. Nobody else in the House made that commitment. The review is complex and there is science involved and we want it to be done properly but the Taoiseach set out the timetable for it and the Government has failed to deliver on that. The Government was alerted to a problem in that regard on 17 June but Fergal Bowers of RTÉ today revealed that the Government has done nothing to address it.

The Tánaiste stated that lessons have been learned. What lessons does he think are learned by further undermining confidence? I asked him to confirm the number of women affected which was presented to the Committee of Public Accounts today by the HSE. Have all of those women received medical cards and the financial supports guaranteed to them or will they be dragged through the courts as was Vicky Phelan?

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