Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

The Leas-Chathaoirleach allowed other Members to speak at length and I wish to make this brief point. One must imagine a situation where a person who underwent a hip operation wakes up in hospital to find his or her leg has been amputated. Such a situation might arise once or twice. If it were to happen a third time, we can be sure every man, woman and child would shout "Stop". The women patients at our Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda had nobody to shout "Stop" on their behalf. When this issue is debated, we must ask why the senior clinicians, those of the same seniority as Dr. Neary, did not shout "Stop". Why did the anaesthetist and pathologist who were involved in each of these cases not put up their hands?