Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask the Minister for Health the reason the programme for Government commitment to establish a patient safety authority has not been honoured and if he will make a statement on the matter. In view of the HIQA report into the infant deaths in Portlaoise hospital and its recommendations and the testimony given to us at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children in recent weeks, there is an urgent need for us to address that failed commitment and ensure we have a patient safety authority of standing.

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