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

The Minister for Health is here but the Deputy asked me about the public inquiry. I did not jump to the conclusion. It has been a view of mine for quite some time. Of the last two inquiries published, the inquiry on Project Eagle found nothing in the end. Do not get me wrong, that in itself can be a finding, but it cost millions of euro and took years. We need to be honest with advocacy groups and with everybody who talks to us and say that this could take between five and ten years. I genuinely think there has to be a better way to do it. In many ways we are discussing what happened with the spinal operations and the use of non-alloyed springs. We kind of know the essentials now.

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