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Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: The unintended consequences the Minister mentioned are, obviously, issues we do not want to see happen. I thank him for pointing them out and thank his officials for having studied the amendments. More broadly, NIMS is very important and will continue to be important once the Bill passes and becomes operational. The Minister mentioned the HIQA report of last year. In constructing the Bill...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: Who was to meet?

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: A note would be useful. However, this is more about the Minister's acceptance that HIQA has flagged concerns relating to NIMS. The other stakeholders on the multi-stakeholder group may also have concerns. It would be useful for the committee to get a note on what, if any, concerns the group has. I understand it has concerns. The issue then is what action will be taken to address those...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: On that basis, I will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 27: In page 38, line 30, to delete “7 days” and substitute “3 days”. These amendments all do exactly the same thing, that is, reduce from seven to three days the timeframe within which a provider must notify HIQA or the Mental Health Commission that a notifiable incident has occurred. I understand the standard practice across HIQA for...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: We discussed patient safety advocates and representatives, including issues around the Independent Patient Safety Council. Many patient advocates have their own views about the council, which include the view that it does not work. I will park that for one second. This is an area that should also be kept under review. When we agreed mechanisms and a review of the operation of the Act, we...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: That is fair enough. I will withdraw the amendment.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 46: In page 55, line 1, to delete “or 29” and substitute “,29or 30”. I will first withdraw amendment No. 46 because it is a technical amendment and some of the issues were discussed earlier. Amendment No. 47 provides that HIQA may be the prosecuting body under the Act for the provisions that relate to it. As the Minister will be aware,...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I ask the Minister to clarify whether it is only the Garda Síochána that can prosecute under the Act.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I have a concern about that. It is not that I do not believe An Garda Síochána should carry out such prosecutions. Rather, my concern is that some of the incidents may not be a priority for the Garda. In terms of scale, some incidents will be more serious than others. I believe a better, more effective and more efficient way to do it would be for HIQA and other bodies to also...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 47: In page 55, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “Proceedings for Offences 50.Summary proceedings for an offence under this Act may be brought and prosecuted— (a) where a person contravenes section 27, 28, 29, or 30, by the Authority, (b) in any other case, by the appropriate body which may be prescribed by the Minister for time to...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 49: In page 56, after line 27, to insert the following: “Report of the Minister 55.(1) Not later than 2 months after receiving a Report of the Patient Safety Council, the Minister shall lay the Report of the Patient Safety Council and a Report of the Minister before the Houses of the Oireachtas in accordance with subsection (2). (2) The Report of the...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I tabled amendment No. 50 because, as all present are aware, the issue of delayed diagnosis was among those at the core of the failures in the context of CervicalCheck. Is the Minister comfortable with delayed diagnosis not being one of the notifiable incidents? For me, it is an obvious area that should be included. I am interested in hearing the Minister's reasons for it not being...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: If I may respond to the Minister, one of the reasons he may not be able to find it anywhere internationally is that there may not have been the same level of incidents in cancer screening and cervical check screening in other countries as occurred in Ireland. Unfortunately, we have direct experience in this State of how women were failed. One of the reasons open disclosure and mandatory...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: What Report Stage amendment is the Minister considering?

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: There would not be a separate item of legislation.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 3: In page 10, after line 39, to insert the following: “Patient Safety Council 4.(1) The Minister shall, within 6 months of the passage of this Act, establish for the purposes of this section, a Patient Safety Council, subject to subsection (5). (2) The Patient Safety Council, so established by the Minister pursuant to this Act, shall meet annually, within...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 33 In page 42, line 5, after “functions” to insert the following: “or to aid in the sharing of information for the purposes of population health information and related matters as the Minister may prescribe by regulation under this section”. Amendment No. 33 seeks to permit HIQA and other bodies to use information gathered under the Act...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I pass on my appreciation to all the members of the organisations represented here today for the significant work they have done over recent years. Most of the witnesses have been before this committee a few times over recent years and we have spoken about the levels of burnout, stress and anxiety the members of their organisations face. I acknowledge that. The people on the front line and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: I received a response to a parliamentary question a number of weeks ago that I thought was chilling because we all know about the levels of overcrowding in our hospitals. Some hospitals are worse than others and maybe there are issues in individual hospitals that must be dealt with as well as structural and capacity problems. The response told me that in the month of January, almost 1,100...