Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I welcome everyone here and thank them for their presentation. I am very sorry they have had such a negative and distressing experience of the Irish health service. It raises huge questions for the HSE and the Department of Health. It is our job to take those issues up with the authorities, which we will do later.

It strikes me there are two aspects to this. First, it seems the Irish health service is not paying adequate attention to this issue.

I say that in respect of basic things such as a lack of data and any meaningful statistics. Ms McLaughlin mentioned the issue of errors in the coding. Is there anybody at a senior level within the HSE who is actually dealing with this issue? Is there a named person whose responsibility it is?