Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage

5:50 pm

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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I move amendment No. 11:


In page 10, line 17, after “opinion,” to insert the following:“such opinion being corroborated by independent written medical advice,”.
I do not want to make a huge issue of this but this is in the context of independent corroboration of medical evidence. There are many reasons a person may want to be removed from a board for whatever reasons. The medical evidence presented should be independently validated.

One never knows the reason a person may want to be removed but in the context of ensuring it is done in accordance with best practice, that independent medical evidence should be corroborated.