Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I will say it is very imminent. I do not want to commit the judge, to be fair to the very sensitive consideration he has given to this, but it will certainly not be beyond July. I will then take Mr. Justice Clark's report and do two things with it. First, I will put it with all the other reports and information I have from HIQA, the systems analysis review of Aoife's death and another report into an unrelated case. I will consider that in the totality of any decision I need to make as the CEO of the HSE regarding the hospital and how it operates. Then, separately, I will discuss that with the Minister and share it with him in a way that will help him to have his discussions with HIQA, because that is separate from me, all the time mindful that while all these reports and improvements are going on and they are very important, there are very good staff working in that hospital today. They have also been through a difficult time. First and foremost in my mind, however, in considering the report of Mr. Justice Clark, will be Aoife's family. Nobody could be indifferent to what we heard in the very publicised inquest.

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