Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Select Committee on Health

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are striving to make the period as short as possible by ensuring the health providers have enough time to do all of the work required. The providers must comply with some serious obligations. There was extensive discussion with health service providers on this matter. The issues raised included staffing over weekends, people being off, shift work and so on. In order that all those who need to make an input can do so and all the information needed for compliance can be gathered, seven days was deemed to be the right balance. It will still be done very quickly while taking account of working patterns.

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