Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

Employees, for reasons of medical confidentiality, have the option of refusing health surveillance. However, we had much discussion on the subject on Committee Stage and there were a number of instances where it might be necessary to make the health surveillance available to employees. To answer Deputy Howlin's question, monitoring would be carried out by an occupational health nurse or occupational medical physician. As I have already stated, this would only occur in situations where hazards had already been noted in the risk assessment statement.

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