Phelan case brings up questions about Ireland's ‘attitude to women’ - Emily Logan

The Human Rights Commissioner has said the CervicalCheck scandal is the latest in a long history of cases where institutional interests were put ahead of those of the individual, and again raises questions about Ireland’s attitude to women.

Emily Logan made the comments having addressed the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Annual Delegate Conference in Cork yesterday.

“I think we’ve a long- standing history of placing institutional interest or institutional loyalty ahead of the interests of individuals and I think that’s what we’re seeing here, that the individual women were not prioritised, that their interests were not prioritised ahead of institutional interests and it’s not enough for that to be a lesson, it’s sadly another lesson,” Ms Logan said.