Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates

11:30 am

Ms Sheila O'Connor:

Nobody does it, until something else happens. Some of the issues that arose in the cancer investigations about which Senator John Crown spoke arise in the case of certain staff such as locums, perhaps, and also in circumstances which I probably should not go into here.

With regard to inquests into the cause of death and the decision to hold an inquest, for example, we need to consider these issues very carefully. They have not yet been touched on to any significant extent.