Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Again, they were not contacted. I just find all of this incredible.

Concerns were also raised about oncology. Is it also true to say there was a CHI risk assessment completed on 27 August 2021 in respect of the oncology unit? Is that not correct? It scored a risk of 20 out of 25, which is high. The assessment states, "because it was a high red risk they cannot be accepted and require significant management focus to mitigate them." In fact, it states that, "Paediatric oncology patients have a poor experience or are harmed due to the inability of CHI to deliver international best practice standards." It talks about prolonged recoveries. I am again asking about those cases. Were the parents of the children involved notified of those concerns?

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