Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage

10:40 am

Photo of Caoimhghín Ó CaoláinCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I also fully support this amendment. I would like to clarify the reference to registered medical practitioner. A pathologist is a registered medical practitioner and I presume that the pathologists would request this information. Is this understood? Heretofore, there has not been a mandatory release of full hospital records to pathologists and it has been a significant weakness. There is ample evidence of where this has not been done.

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