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THERE WAS UPROAR in the Dáil and the House was suspended for a time amid repeated Opposition demands for a debate about reports of thousands of unopened referral letters from GPs to consultants at Tallaght hospital.

The latest revelations follow the controversy about the failure by consultant radiologists to review more than 57,000 patient X-rays over a four-year period.