Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

Over the past 24 hours we learned that the files of at least 20 patients are to be examined in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, to analyse the work carried out and procedures followed by certain surgeons, a number of which ended in fatalities. Last week, Members called on the Leader to organise a debate on self-regulation and I reiterate that call. The time is right, as we are in the run-up to the introduction of legislation to amend the Medical Practitioners Act.