Commitments made during CervicalCheck controversy have yet to become a reality
Along with Stephen Teap, whose wife died of cervical cancer, Ms Phelan appeared before the Public Accounts Committee where she told TDs: “I am not interested in revenge. That is not what I am here for.”
Mr Harris insisted she did not warn him off the plan before he announced the initiative, but the fact was the system was overloaded.Another aspect of the controversy that outraged the public was how terminally ill women were being forced through lengthy and arduous court proceedings. Then taoiseach Leo Varadkar made a bold promise: “What we propose to do is to offer mediation in every case so that women can avoid having to go to court and the trauma of a court hearing.
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