Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Mark Molloy:

I will come in on the issue of box ticking, about which the Department of Health was worried. From my own experience, if the box had been ticked on the morning Mark died and somebody had held up his or her hands and told us why he had died, it would have saved us two, three or four years of absolute emotional torment in trying to find out why he had died. Róisín was also badly injured that morning and was lucky to pull through. As we sit here today, we still do not know what happened to her. The consultant will not tell us what happened to her and why she was injured. I would take a box ticking exercise at any stage over the torment of trying to find out.