Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland
Dr. Ike Okafor:
When we get a parliamentary question, it goes through our liaison officer and comes to the head of operations within the directorate, and I would be made aware of it around the same time. If it is a clinical question, such as this one, it would go to the clinical specialty lead and I would have a discussion with the clinical specialty lead for that particular specialty. In this case, we had to give the Deputy a list of the companies that had supplied our implants, so we went through them and got all the information he needed. Sometimes, it would need members of the operations team just to get some details and we might need to go through records. It depends on the nature of the parliamentary question. Some of them need a lot of work.
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