Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A report that was commissioned by HIQA clearly states that children were operated on with medical devices that should not have been used. We are acting. The persons responsible - we all have responsibility here in this House - including those who carried out the operations and those who decided to have operations on young children who did not need them, have to be held accountable too, and they will. Any changes that need to be made in the hospitals, in the management, in the structure and in the procedures that clearly led to what has happened here will be made if they have to change and when they need to change. The Government will fully support the Minister, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, and the hospitals to make sure that happens . Simply removing a board and simply trying to delete a really important part of this is actually going to delay things.

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