Calls for HSE director general to resign or be fired

Calls have been made for the resignation of HSE director general Tony O’Brien in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal or for the Taoiseach to remove him.

Opposition parties also called for the establishment of a redress scheme and hit out at a “rotten” and “potentially sinister” culture in the HSE.

The failures in cervical cancer screenings dictated proceedings in the Dáil yesterday after it emerged that 17 women who initially received false positive results have since died.