There is little else to talk about today other than the cervical cancer scandal. What has happened is incredible. We cannot underestimate the fear that women all over this country and their families have been living with since the weekend, and which will continue into the future. The State Claims Agency is a Government agency with an embedded culture of dismissiveness. It is autocratic and its only intent is to demean women by putting the blame on them. A total of 17 people have died following the audit.

As Senator Conway asked, what is it about this country that, for generations since the formation of the State, it has been women who have been targeted, neglected and dismissed from society by patriarchical attitudes? When the HSE formed a panel yesterday, it had to apologise for the fact that every single member of the panel was male. Women's voices need to be on every patient policy group and steering group because we cannot trust the HSE or the Government.

I welcome Senators Marshall and Lawlor and I look forward to working with them. Senator Marshall represents one of the traditions in the North, namely, the farming tradition, and he will have a baptism of fire as we will be having a Brexit debate a little later.

I condemn the comments of John Taylor. Some people said it was underlying racism but it was actually racism.

His comment was "typical Indian" and that it would not be something that a native Irish Prime Minister would do. Leo Varadkar is a native Irish Prime Minister. It is racism and I hope we hear condemnation of it from the House of Lords.

Hear, hear.

In the context of the ongoing cervical cancer issue I refer to the Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2016, which was voted down in 2013 by the previous Government. During the Committee Stage debate we had on the Bill it was decided to remove section 3. That was the last debate we had on the Bill.

I will outline what section 3 would have done to the people who are responsible for deaths of women in this country because of the cervical cancer debacle, which is effectively killing people. It introduced an offence of grossly negligent management causing death. Section 3(1)(a) refers to persons who "knew or ought to reasonably have known of a substantial risk of death or serious personal harm" and section 3(1)(b) refers to where people, "failed to take reasonable efforts to eliminate that risk". What would that have carried as a sentence if we had passed it in this House in 2016? It was 12 years in jail.

I thank the Senator.

It was not passed. Do Members know who wanted section 3, in its entirety, removed? It was the Government. No one will go to jail. No one went to jail.

I thank the Senator.

The reason we brought in that Bill and the reason the Law Reform Commission wanted the Bill introduced - that is its Bill - is the hepatitis C scandal where 1,200 women were infected knowingly with hepatitis C and women died.

I thank the Senator.

That Bill was to make sure it would not happen again. What will we have? We will have inquiries, tribunals and people getting paid off and fellows going off on their pensions and women dying. Why?

The Senator has made his point.

It is because that Bill has not been passed and no one will go to jail as a result.