Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)

We are talking about children, sometimes as young as the age of two and even younger, being operated on. What has happened is incomprehensible. When parents rang the phone line that was set up for them at the weekend all they were asked for was their contact details. None of the questions they asked could be answered by the people on the phone line. It is not an acceptable way to treat the parents.

The Taoiseach said that everything needs to be looked at and reviewed and that clinical oversight needs to be reviewed. Is he committing to carrying out a review of why the system of clinical directors here is failing? When will that review start? Will he give details about it? I do not want him to commentate on this. I want him, as Taoiseach, to give us hard details about what he will do in reviewing the failures of clinical oversight.

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