Dáil debates
Wednesday, 25 March 2026
Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation
5:40 am
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The name of Harvey Morrison Sherratt, a child catastrophically failed by Children's Health Ireland, CHI, was very sadly joined by another name last weekend. That name is Chloe Maher, from Coolock, a 23-year-old who died on 4 March last. Her death was caused by health complications from her untreated scoliosis. Chloe never got the treatment she required when she was in the care of CHI and then she aged out. Chloe was just 14 when Simon Harris promised that no child would wait longer than four months for spinal surgery, but while she waited and waited, Chloe's condition worsened and like too many other young people, and in the words of her heartbroken aunt Orla, they are left until it is too late to operate and then they vanish from the system because they age out. Will there be an investigation-----
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