Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Four families have lost their loved ones because of this and we do not know how many more of the other seven may be affected. I join in the expressions of sympathy but it is not good enough. We do this every time we have an incident, and that sympathy is heartfelt but we do not learn from it. We need to learn that this must not happen again in another hospital. We need to have some sort of patient focus at the heart of Government that actually says we will not continue to come into this Chamber every few months offering sympathy. We need action. I have identified the recommendations from the report on what are determined to be acceptable workloads. Is that something the Government will take on board and implement across the health service at all grades? Will it give health professionals workloads that they can manage, the support they need to do their job and take a proactive role in filling the vacancies at every level? The Government cannot keep putting its head in the sand about our consultant, GP and nurse vacancies. We need proactivity to fill those vacancies to take the pressure off our health professionals and to avoid a situation where we come back to another expression of sympathy.

Finally, I repeat my question - is the person involved in this case still working in the health service?

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