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

The witnesses are all very welcome. I thank them for their presentation.

I will follow up on a few matters on which I will not go into detail. It surprised and shocked many people to hear from the external review that there were basic shortcomings in the operation and management of Temple Street hospital. Things people expected to happen as a matter of course did not. Ms Hardiman said in her presentation that 20% of the review's recommendations have been implemented and the rest will be implemented by the end of the year. Will she send the committee a note on which ones have been implemented and where we are on all 50 of them?

The other matter relates to the review on Magec rods in Crumlin hospital, as we saw last night. The Magec rods and their use require an entire session on their own. I hope we have time to deal with the issue later but, if not, we will need to come back to it. The third point I will raise at the outset is that there have been a number of references to international norms - by the Minister in the Dáil in recent days and by others - with the suggestion that the outcomes in Temple Street hospital are out of line with international norms. I have not seen any of the international norms for that cohort of patients. Will the witnesses tell me where they come from and quote from them? Is it an equivalent cohort of patients?