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22nd October 2019
03:52pm BST

Varadkar said that all the recommendations made in the Scally Report will be implemented.
He added that the State wanted to build a "better culture" within the health system where full disclosure would be given to patients.
"There is no information about a patient that a patient should not know," he said. "Patients will be treated with compassion and empathy."
He said that although it will be difficult to eradicate cervical cancer entirely, the State want to make it a "rare disease" through the implementation of a new screening service that will "bring more testing back to Ireland."
"We have much more still to do to restore confidence," he said. "What happened to so many women and their families should not have happened."
"It was a failure of our health service (...) We need now to restore trust and rebuild relationships that have been severely damaged.
"I apologise to all those hurt or wronged. We vow now to make sure this never happens to anyone again."
Campaigners Vicky Phelan, Stephen Teap, and Lorraine Walsh were among those listening to the Taoiseach's address inside the Dáil chamber today.
They had discussed the basis of such an apology in a meeting with Varadkar and Minister for Health Simon Harris earlier this year.
An independent review into CervicalCheck's faults had previously urged that the service adopt a 'Women First' approach.
The Rapid Review report, carried out by Professor Brian McCraith, found that the HSE underestimated the scale of the CervicalCheck controversy and there is "an absence of clear lines of authority and clarity of role responsibilities within CC."
The report also found that CervicalCheck relied almost solely on an outsourced laboratory, and engagement between patient representatives and the HSE has overall been "not good."Explore more on these topics: