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

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

That is the exact question to which I wished to return. There is a section within the Scally report which deals with the issue of governance. While the medical practitioners on the front line are being held accountable, no one who was involved in management and governance is being held accountable on CervicalCheck. That is one issue I want to raise. I welcome this legislation but in the HSE I have seen where people are in charge of a particular area who we then find have moved on to other areas. I am seriously questioning accountability. Dr. Scally highlighted it in his report, which referred to a total lack of governance, but no one is going to be held accountable for that lack of governance because it came in under the HSE.

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