Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I asked about clinical direction, which will be determined on a case-by-case basis. As Professor Higgins said, very unacceptable practices have happened in the past and many of them did so on a clinical interpretation, because there is a balancing of what might be most important. The question of elective procedures, for example, which may not be clinically necessary but which people may wish to have and may be entitled to have, has not been addressed. Will clinical direction be entirely contained within the new body? What will be the link between clinical direction from that body and the clinical direction at St. Vincent's Healthcare Group?