Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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On behalf of the committee, I extend a warm welcome to Dr. Colm Henry, chief clinical officer; Dr. Orla Healy, national clinical director of quality and patient safety; Dr. Michael O'Dwyer, national clinical lead for the sepsis programme; and Dr. Ciara Martin, national clinical adviser and group lead for young people, HSE.

I extend a welcome to Mr. Joe Hughes and Karen Phoenix who are seated in the Public Gallery. They are all very welcome back. I thank Deputy McAuliffe for joining us again. He has worked hard on this issue in his constituency.

Dr. Henry will now make his opening statement. I suggest he do so for about ten minutes. We will then have questions and comments from Members. I ask Members to limit their contribution to ten minutes as that will allow people to comment more than once. I invite Dr. Henry to make his opening statement.