Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for not being here for the submission made by Mr. Quinn. He said this will limit the power of the regulator to assess the fitness of individual senior managers in public hospitals. That goes back to my earlier question, when I pointed out that senior management overruled the advice of medical practitioners. If this is the situation under this legislation now, where senior managers overrule medical advice, is it the case that HIQA will have no powers to deal with that?

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