Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Health Service Executive published a new guidelines document on a performance and accountability framework for 2017 but it is not abiding by its own principles or document with this issue. The document provides for the redeployment, expulsion or sacking of individuals who are not performing as they should within the HSE. We need accountability and performance indicators, and we need to see individuals held to account.

The entrenched position being adopted by the leadership team of the HSE is doing nothing to boost the confidence of women in the country now. People in those positions must reflect on them and resign as quickly as possible. We cannot allow the women of Ireland to be treated for one more day in the manner in which they have been. They are frightened and afraid. They do not know whether to accept the results or if their lives are in danger because they are carrying an illness. That is unacceptable. The confidence in the leadership team in the HSE is no longer there and their positions are no longer tenable.