Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the question about how much scandal the screening programme can take, it is up to this House and the Government to deal with the issues that have emerged and to ensure that we move from scandal to reassurance. This is what the Scally report and the support packages for victims of this scandal were all about and that is what the Minister for Health has been trying to do, in my view, effectively, to bring order to how we respond to this in an appropriate way. The Deputy talks about scandal. We can contribute to that scandal and that sense of fear and uncertainty if we do not respond appropriately in this House and create fear unnecessarily. We have a new issue that we did not know about and which needs to be addressed. It was raised with the Minister in December-----

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