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
Pádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
CHI is happy to share that with the committee. That is great. More generally, there are ways of disclosing things. Names can be redacted and people can be engaged with. If things are contested, that can be noted in the report. What I am hearing is this constant reluctance to disclose and share information. We need accountability, transparency and full disclosure from CHI. That is how it will begin to repair the trust because that has been broken. That would be a very good starting point.
Linking to an earlier discussion, there are many patient advocates who asked about previous reports who have been denied access. Why were those reports, for example, the Dixon report, not provided to those who were looking for them?
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