Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, the people at the coalface of these issues who actually deal with litigation would very much dispute that argument. Sadly, this legislation has been very much framed in the context of supposedly protecting establishments from liability rather than proactively empowering patients to get information about incidents that happened to them. What we are putting forward should actually embolden health service providers to properly and openly disclose with no fear of litigation at all but the legislation seems to be framed around that.

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