Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----is not very helpful, and I will respond, if you do not mind. Mr. Nayagam was specifically identified by the chief clinical officer. It was important to the chief clinical officer that this would not be someone who was just a spinal orthopaedic expert. It was important that the totality of paediatric orthopaedics was reviewed. It was important that was done by someone who has broad experience. Of course, if the reviewer wants to bring in specific external spinal orthopaedic expertise, he can and will do that.

Can I just ask that we do not in this House try to undermine the credibility of the reviewer who is coming in to do this work?

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