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 Tom ClonanTom Clonan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses do not know. I know that Dr. Okafor knows the consequences and implications of children not receiving timely intervention on the urological pathway. The witnesses do not know. What do the parents think of that? That is shocking. I have highlighted this in the Houses of the Oireachtas on behalf of the people who have elected me here and who have given me a mandate. We have put this down on the record. I have here all my contributions, at least half a dozen contributions in which I warned about the lack of surgical interventions on the urological pathway, which is routine in other jurisdictions. As I said to Dr. Goldman the last time, he has come from Great Ormond Street. Is he not shocked by what he finds in this Republic in terms of the suboptimal outcomes for children in CHI?

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