Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)

The reason I am raising it is that I was dealing with an incident where someone who had come in from Germany had a psychiatric problem and was admitted to hospital. The person would not give their consent. He was on medication but the German authorities would not release his records. The doctors could not work out even what medication he was on, to such an extent that he had to be transported back to Germany, accompanied by two healthcare officials, because they could not manage him here. The big issue was that they were not allowed under the German system to access his records.