James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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This is with the benefit of hindsight but that is what we are here to do. Clearly, Ms Hardiman's intentions were good in terms of trying to identify challenges within the culture and this individual but the outworkings of the report produced a whole other host of stuff that the CHI effectively just ignored. It did not carry out any further due diligence on the issues of the NTPF. It is only now, all these years later, because the NTPF issue has been published that we are seeing this unravelling into other hospitals like Beaumont Hospital, Naas hospital and two unidentified hospitals. This is where transparency matters. I am unbelievably frustrated with the responses relating to open disclosure and that there was no scientific evidence to tell these parents. I am the parent of three children. If my child was entitled to be treated in a hospital in accordance with the waiting list and they were not treated in that time, you should bloody well tell them. Why have the witnesses not told the parents of these children that they did not get the operations in the time they should have because there was a rogue individual involved in using waiting list initiatives in a way that should not have been done?