Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. This is exactly what the additional review is looking at right now. Of course I have spoken to CHI and the HSE. My officials are engaged. I have a view on some of those questions. However, I am very much of the view that we have to establish the full facts. We have to establish who, at a management and a clinical level, knew what. This relates to several questions. First of all is the use of the springs in the operation. We know it was an operation that was being trialled in Utrecht, for example. Probably more pressingly, the fact is that they were not medical grade and were not authorised for this use. A review is going on now to establish exactly who knew what on all of those areas.

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