Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to convey my condolences to the family of Tom Murphy. I pay tribute to Tom Murphy for his wonderful works and creativity. Rural Ireland, in particular, is much better off due to the life of Tom Murphy. I commend all the work he did to highlight the torture of emigration over the decades. He had an understanding of what it was like to tear families and communities apart. Unfortunately, the same thing is still happening today.

I am currently attending meetings of the health committee. It appears that the more we pursue this debacle and scandal, the more questions are raised and the fewer answers are given. On the one hand we are being given an apology, with people saying it is terrible that this has happened and apologising, yet it is obvious from the documentation that was produced in the last number of days that some of the same officials who appeared before the committee last week did not disclose in a transparent way what they should have disclosed. They are still fighting to keep secret the information on who knew what, and when people knew it. I do not believe that the Minister did not know about that. I am speaking personally. I do not believe it, and the more I hear the more I do not believe it. I cannot for the life of me figure out-----