Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Tony Holohan:

Chairman, your question touches on something that we should clarify. This is not to obviate the need within the system for the system's own proper system of performance management. The system of regulation that is external and would be overseen by HIQA and the licensing system will not be the system of performance management and quality assurance for the delivery of healthcare. The service itself will have to take on the responsibilities for those things. That is the primary determinant of safety. This is the assurance regulatory backstop with regard to all of that.