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.

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.