Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I clearly asked the question for a reason. The hospital is running afoul of the Act. It is not meeting the requirements of the 2014 Act, which allowed six months for implementation, and it is now 2018. What is it hiding? There is no disclosures log on the website and there is a link to nothing. I know a number of freedom of information requests and other requests for information have been made of the hospital but these are not public. The information given out is contradictory. Why is it not publishing the information in order that we all might see it?

The hospital is not like other hospitals that are maintaining the log and adhering to Freedom of Information Act requirements. I want to know why it is behaving in this manner. I appreciate what the Minister is saying and that he will expedite it. I am asking this as an oral question because I already asked it as a written question in November 2017. The answer was the exact same as the one the Minister has read out here. There is something going on. I ask that the Department looks at Beaumont Hospital and what is happening in all the other hospitals. Why are all the other hospitals adhering to this and providing the information as required but Beaumont Hospital is not?

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