Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is mandatory reporting when there is any potential threat of abuse to children. That obligation does not just rest on people who are well intentioned and just happen to be aware of it. If there is a child who has an operation which goes wrong and the doctors are in the room, I would have thought they should be mandated to tell the parents instead of their deciding voluntarily to bring it to the parents' attention.