Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to go around in circles. We will press the amendments given the low starting point. I fully accept what the Minister of State says that in many cases only the service provider will know and patients will not even know that there was a near miss. That goes without saying. I am talking about the small minority of cases where the patient knows or someone in their family suspects that something has happened and the service provider does not own up. In that circumstance, there should be scope for a patient or a family member who is with them to be able to rely on the legislation to have what happened classified as a safety incident and thereby gain access to open disclosure of all the circumstances of how and why. We have made the point. We will press the amendments and move on.