Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the one list, why are there multiple lists? An explanatory note in the general scheme of Patient Safety Bill 2018, states, "Through Ministerial regulations, those "reportable incidents" which must be reported to the relevant reporting authority [...]" and it refers to a "detailed listing". I am uncomfortable with two lists. Who is the person who decides what is reportable and what is not? There is a blurring of the lines. I cannot understand why all incidents are not reportable in the same way and that they do not all enter the same database. Maybe I am misinterpreting this.

On page 8, where it refers to private healthcare providers, it states, "Private providers of mental health services will be required to notify the Mental Health Commission". How are they to notify it? Is it by email or letter? Would it be more logical, a bit like the yellow card system with adverse drug reactions, that there would be only one system and everyone logs on with his or her number and fills in the boxes? Has the Department any comment on why there is more than one list?