Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Government needs to deal with this. I know every single person in this Chamber would be appalled at the idea of a young girl being opened up, her bone being chiselled into unnecessarily and left with a scar and pain, but it is the Government's responsibility to provide a pathway and certainty for those families. I ask the Minister a simple question - will the Government ensure that every single one of the 2,260 families that got that letter will be given an independent clinical pathway to determine whether their child was operated on unnecessarily? That is the first question they want answered.

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