Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE
Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:
I would like to answer that to reassure people it is being given the highest priority by myself as chief officer. I am aware of the cases the Deputy has spoken about and I can assure him it is very much in my review process on an ongoing basis to ensure that will be completed. It is important to acknowledge the fact the reviews undertaken by the look-back team and Dr. Maskey, which was of a significant number of files, as I mentioned earlier, was undertaken during a period when we had two major ongoing concerns, one of them being the ongoing Covid-19-related issues and the other being the cyberattack which downed our IT system for a period of time. That look-back was undertaken as quickly as possible because we were sensitive to the requirement to try to provide answers to those who were affected in south Kerry.
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