Alan Kelly: We must get answers from past health ministers

All former health ministers stretching back over the last 15 years could be hauled before a cross-party Oireachtas committee to answer questions on the cervical cancer tests scandal.

Alan Kelly: We must get answers from past health ministers

Labour health spokesman and health committee member, Alan Kelly, is set to make the request at an emergency meeting with Health Minister Simon Harris, the HSE, the National Cancer Control Programme, the Medical Council, and CervicalCheck this morning.

Mr Kelly said that in light of the cervical cancer tests scandal there is an urgent need to question all health ministers stretching back 15 years to uncover what exactly they knew.

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