Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It should be about how we treat these vulnerable women. It is about whether we should exclude them from returning to the scheme if their cancer returns. I know from family experience that it is absolutely worse when a cancer returns than when it is first diagnosed. Under this proposal, people will have to deal with that without access to the tribunal. It is clear that regardless of all the rigmarole about legal advice, the Minister's legal team is pretty weak. I make that observation on the basis that the amendments which were tabled on Committee Stage were not ruled out of order beforehand.

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