Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Professor Murray for his answer. Do we have a situation in Ireland where a rogue hospital could, because of the severe difficulties in hiring specialists, start employing unqualified people, put them in specialist roles and present them to the public as specialists? Is that possible? Is there no higher authority in the State, within the Medical Council, the Department of Health, the HSE or anywhere else, whose job it is to make sure that hospitals do not hire people who are not qualified as specialists or consultants?