Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

The legislation before us does not extend to clinical trials which are already encompassed within EU law. The Bill does, however, provide an equivalent set of arrangements for research ethics for research outside the clinical trial environment.

I was not sure if there was a question in the Deputy's initial contribution but he talked about the value of-----