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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I do not think anyone will disagree with the assertion that we have had an absolute disaster and failure around children's care. Many have gone through operations they did not need. We need to deal with those children and make sure they are reviewed correctly and properly from a medical point of view and that they get the correct pathways afterwards. I bring it up and brought it up...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I appreciate the timelines. The clinical review is six months and the Minister is saying it is September for the expert review process. The terms of reference are not set. We would like to think this will deal with the issue of the considerable timeline that would need to be taken into account, the huge number of cases and the disparity. In the case of my constituent, can we find a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 11. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism by which parents whose children were and are deemed to need hip dysplasia surgery at CHI hospitals at Temple Street and Cappagh will be able to get independent second opinions by experts of their choosing paid for by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33749/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to ask the Minister the mechanism by which parents whose children are deemed to need hip dysplasia surgery at CHI hospitals such as Temple Street and Cappagh will be able to get independent second opinions by experts of their choosing, paid for by the HSE? I have spoken to the Minister on this previously and I believe she was working with Bernard Gloster on finding a solution to this...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. Tá brón orm; two questions came up early. The fault was not mine, it was actually the fault of those who did not show up for theirs. We have all been dealing with issues of children and children's rights. From time to time, there is a need to absolutely ensure these are fulfilled. That is not always the case. The witnesses have...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it. I remember a person who said they worked in support services at one point spoke about a particular scenario. They said they did probably just enough to keep the kid out of care but they were not necessarily sure that was enough because the circumstances were not perfect. I accept that, first and foremost, it is about putting in the early interventions that Dr. Muldoon spoke...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Supports and guidelines.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will follow on from what Deputy Kerrane asked about the added powers the Ombudsman for Children's Office believes it could be assigned by statutory instrument. Circumstances have changed and the Ombudsman for Children's Office has a large number of people coming to it and while the majority of them relate to education there are Tusla-specific questions and a large number about disability...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There are obviously legacy issues. Will Dr. Muldoon give more detail on what he considers would be a more fit for purpose scenario in that situation? He does not have to be utterly prescriptive, just a little.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That creates that particular issue we spoke about earlier, that is, trying to deal with children who have been suspended or put out of school, particularly children with more challenging needs. There is no consistency across the board. I accept the difficulties in some of those circumstances so that would be useful. I will put the witnesses back on the spot. I asked the question with 30...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We cannot just be relying on, at times, outlier educators and those who have gone away and trained themselves and so on.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We need consistency across the board.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is a fair amount of agreement about the necessity to provide interventions and high support and the earlier that is done then the better the outcome. Obviously there is a failing because we are talking about special care and high support being insufficiently resourced with the right sort of supports that are needed for acute circumstances. That is a case of highlighting the issue and...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The pathfinder project was mentioned. Again, it is the communication piece that falls through. In fairness to Bernard Gloster, he spoke about another aspect. I will use it as an analogy rather than get into the issue around CDNTs. He said the people who had a better experience of CDNTs had a link worker.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Therefore, there is a communication-----

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----rather than just a frustration of running from one silo to another.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is definitely the piece that is missing. In terms of vulnerable children, eventually their situation could deteriorate into whether it is as children but later as adults into street homelessness. On the particular issues around mental health services, we have all had issues at times trying to deal with some of these vulnerable people and the services are not there. Certain protections...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: ----actually stop people from getting the care that they require.