Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Dúirt an Taoiseach go bhfuil an méid atá sa tuarascáil dochreidte, ach níl sé seo fíor mar bhí a fhios ag an Rialtas agus bhí a fhios ag na tuismitheoirí an méid a bhí ar siúl i CHI. The Taoiseach said this is incredible. It is certainly shocking and deeply unacceptable but it is not incredible. This was known. Parents knew it. Advocacy groups knew it and raised, again and again, wide-ranging systemic issues around governance, a lack of management and issues around informed consent.

Deep ethical concerns were raised again and again and were ignored. Families and advocates met a brick wall. That is the truth. I do not know if the Taoiseach has studied the report in any detail but this is not simply a matter of clinical decisions made in discrete circumstances in an operating theatre. Of course, the clinicians need to be accountable. This is profound dysfunction - a pattern of it within the fabric of this organisation. The chairman of the board has resigned. Does the board and the rest of the executive need to follow him?

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