Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health
9:00 am
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I would like to ask a final question on the same topic. Given that the Oireachtas is proposing it will be an offence under law for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals not to disclose, those clinicians who are watching this space will want to know that the necessary legal protections and training will be in place as this becomes their legal responsibility. Can Dr. Holohan give a commitment to the clinicians who are watching this legislation unfold that adequate legal protections and training will be in place for them at the time when mandatory disclosure will be a legal requirement for them? Is it the case that the law is going to require them to mandatorily disclose before we have all the adequate supports in place for that to happen?
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