We have seen it all at this stage. We have had unnecessary hip operations, unlicensed springs implanted into children, defective technology being a fixture in operations and we have had Wi-Fi issues. There is something new every week. Now, we have a doctor who, allegedly, referred public patients to their private clinic at the weekend and was paid money by the National Treatment Purchase Fund. This fund is meant to be used to expedite the most needy people first but these were not necessarily the children with the greatest need. The Minister's backbenchers keep thanking her, but she must listen to parents. We just heard an apology given to parents in the previous session. We all know we are going to be back here apologising to parents and the Minister is just stringing this out for as long as possible.

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I do not have time to make all the points I wanted regarding the research. I just want to say what the parents believe needs to be done at this stage. The HSE was proposing a two-stage review, by the CHI first and then by outsiders. That has been completely rejected. They are putting forward the idea of a partial ratified independent scrutiny mechanism, PRISM, as it is called, where the parents themselves would have a say in what happens and scrutiny over the whole situation. It is incredible how knowledgeable the parents are. I am sure the Minister knows this because she has met them. There must be a full and comprehensive review. Every parent and child should be entitled to a second opinion and not have to wait six months as is currently being proposed. We also need a full public inquiry into CHI. Every case should be audited and not just those chosen. We all know this is just being strung out. The board needs to go. There is no way it can move forward, in terms of CHI, into a new system. It has been absolutely ruled out.

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