Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is my experience, from sitting on other committees also, that before asking witnesses to come in we must be very specific on what we want to ask them or they will wriggle out of giving us an answer. Perhaps we might talk to them about the sepsis awareness campaign, on the spend that has happened in the past and also what their plan is for the future. We may take our lead from what Ms Doireann O'Mahony has said about the Scottish model and we may reference that specifically, or refer to what other countries are doing about awareness of sepsis. This will give us a way of benchmarking what they are doing rather than just, as Mr. Hughes said, taking the bone that is thrown.

While the campaigns might be grand, what other countries are doing may be far better. I do not know how this committee will work. We may find ourselves becoming the sepsis committee and I am aware that the Committee on Public Petitions cannot do that, and there is a health committee too, but I would certainly appreciate the idea of having another meeting. At that stage it will probably be the HSE in before us rather than with Mr. Hughes and Ms O'Mahony-----