Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Select Committee on Health
Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Committee Stage
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I appreciate that but in my experience, that discretion is seldom, if ever, exercised. We must be very careful and we must absolutely protect the public interest where it is in the public interest to publish. Erring on the side of:"we will publish unless there is" is a necessary discretion. If I am hearing the Minister of State correctly, the appeal would be the event that the regulatory body, or the fitness to practise committee, decided to publish, and the appeal would then be to the High Court to request that it would not be published. Am I incorrect in that understanding?
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