Leo Varadkar defends extra time for inquiry into cervical cancer scandal

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has defended the granting of a time extension to the Scally scoping exercise into the cervical cancer scandal.

Leo Varadkar defends extra time for inquiry into cervical cancer scandal

At leaders’ questions in the Dáil, he said a suggestion by Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin that the Scally report be rolled into a commission of inquiry now “is worthy of proper consideration”.

Mr Martin said the public has been shocked at the CervicalCheck scandal and the treatment of women, in terms of non-disclosure in particular, which has resulted in women being forced through the courts.

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