Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To clarify, I asked what exactly had been done before the offer was made to every woman and whether steps were taken to inject that capacity into the system. My point on outsourcing was that it was a political decision, albeit not made by the Minister's Government. It was a political not a clinical decision. Regardless of what is in the Scally report, therefore, we have never seen any information to suggest that clinically it is better to outsource. That is not by way of scaremongering; it is simply a fact.

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