Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-05
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Eamon Ryan (GP), Dublin Bay South

In the context of the report on the front page of The Irish Times today, the Cabinet decided on Tuesday to: open up all the documentation; make sure it was fully transparent; allow the Oireachtas committee to examine, question and investigate; and for the Minister for Health to come back to the Cabinet with observations from that process. That is what was decided at Cabinet. We will have to wait and see what will be decided at Cabinet in two weeks' time. It is not decided on the front page of an Irish newspaper.
No one on our side, in our party or, certainly, from what I have heard, in government is casting blame for the delay or saying it was one side or the other. From listening in recent years, it seems that the central concern relates to religious interference in procedures in a new institution. One of the outcomes of the delay that has occurred in recent years is that there is a clear legal certainty that this will not be the case and that those concerns can be allayed and addressed.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-05