John Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I speak with a very heavy heart about this and I am sorry if I am taking the risk of hurting the feelings of any of my colleagues. As the only hospital specialist medical consultant and the only medical doctor who is not a member of the dominant party of government in the Oireachtas, I feel I must give the independent opinion I was mandated to give when elected on a health issue which has arisen and about which I feel very strongly. Will the Leader ask the Minister for Health to attend the House today to explain and to defend the composition of the investigative panel into the Galway tragedy? I believe it is absurd.