Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

First of all, no one is being asked to wait and wait. There has to be a proper audit done of this and then there has to be a proper look back to cover as many children as possible who would have had this surgery to have completeness and to do a comprehensive look back on the specific surgery. In my view, that is the correct thing to do. Yes, correspondence is going out to parents; that is important as parents have to be contacted. I will discuss this, obviously. Once the audit is done, there has to be full transparency in respect of not just the audit but all aspects of how the case, or this issue, will be dealt with from here onwards. It is very worrying that an audit has been found necessary in the context of standards of clinical care.

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