Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

I want to return to the issue of the hip dysplasia surgery raised by my colleague, Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. The Taoiseach has misled the Dáil. To set the record straight, the letters were sent to parents on foot of an early recommendation of the audit, and it says so in the letter. This was recommendation No. 4.2.1, to be precise. The recommendation refers specifically to the recall of children. We know with regard to cases between 2021 and 2023 that 561 recalls are in question. The very same letter, word for word, not a general letter or a different context but the same context, the same audit and the same letter, has been sent to families of children who had surgery as far back as 2010. This letter also refers to an early recommendation from the audit. It is the same letter and the same situation.

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