Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health

Mr. Damien McCallion:

It is very operational. The Deputy will understand that hospitals have a lot of operational documents around all of this, including risk assessments and so on. Those documents are internal. They are reviewed by the regulator but are not typically published because they are for internal working purposes. However, the regulator would look at those documents as part of a visit, as would the Health and Safety Authority. The policy and the way a hospital functions-----