James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

With regard to the last point, no proceedings have been commenced but it is a statement of intent borne by the sense of hurt and loss that parents believe their children have suffered. We have to take that on board.

The other points raised by Deputy Kelleher are well made. Of course we should always look at best practice not only here but abroad and we should seek to pool information. We opened the e-health conference yesterday. More than 2,000 delegates are attending the Convention Centre, Dublin, at the moment to consider the subject of exchanging information and trying to accelerate change within our health services in the European Union and beyond. Three European Union Commissioners will be present during the conference. The President of the Senate of Massachusetts, Therese Murray, was present yesterday and we look forward to the presence of Deval Patrick, the Governor of Massachusetts, tomorrow. This is very much an EU-US initiative but it involves other people throughout the world feeding into an information process that will help us improve practice not only in the area of the treatment of narcolepsy but in many other aspects of health care.

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