Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Secretary General told me verbally before that the matter was dealt with last year. I am saying it was not. This is May and seven committee meetings on from when this controversy arose. Those regulations are still not in place. The clinicians and people involved in the HSE are as fearful of open disclosure as they were before the passage of the legislation because the Department has not provided the legal cover.

This is not a HSE matter. This is a Department of Health matter. We will come on to the Department's future plans about the patient safety Bill. We need, however, to put into operation the legislation the Oireachtas passed last year, imperfect and all as it may have been.