Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

It is more important that there is transparency regarding people who are co-opted on to committees. Everybody will know who is on the Medical Council but people can be drawn in who are quite distant from the Medical Council and who may have all sorts of reasons to want to gain influence. We need to be absolutely scrupulous and tough about any possibility of conflict of interest arising that is not known and understood and recorded. This is an important issue we need to address.

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