Patricia Ryan (Kildare South, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Everybody who spoke earlier had an issue around the absence of a statutory duty of candour in the Bill. I am asking that this be addressed also. What I really want to say is there should be an obligation on the provider clinician - I am glad that the Minister has mentioned that - to inform a patient of her right to a Part 5 review at the point of diagnosis. We owe it to Lorraine Walsh and Vicky Phelan, and all those other women, to do the right thing. We cannot expect everything of the person with the cancer and nothing of the system. The responsibility is to ensure the person gets the truth. We must ensure we do that. We are elected to this House by people who want us to do a job. By sitting here and not getting this legislation right, we are doing the electorate a disservice. We cannot continue to do this. We cannot continue to rush through legislation for the sake of rushing it through and not get it right. I welcome what the Minister stated about the obligation.

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