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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Ryan and all of the delegates for their opening statements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I first ask Dr. Ryan of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association to address those issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. Varley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Ryan. I have a question for Dr. Duddy on the practicality of making an open disclosure in a timely fashion. Who do he believe should be present at that open disclosure? Should it be the principal team leader, a member of the nursing staff, a member of the administrative staff or all three, to have an even open disclosure in order that everybody will understand what is being said?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: To whom should the open disclosure be made? Obviously, it might not be made to the patient but to a relative or a number of relatives. How would Dr. Duddy see the process being set up within 24 or 48 hours of an adverse event occurring?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: Regarding the protection of the evidence or information given in an open disclosure, how much information should be made available to the patient or his or her relatives? Will it become adversarial if one says, "What I am saying to you now cannot be used in further proceedings relating to this incident"? How does Dr. Duddy see it panning out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I put Dr. Duddy on the spot. Do the representatives of the INMO have a view on the matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I thank Dr. Ryan. I am sorry for keeping Deputy Louise O'Reilly so long.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I will group the Deputy's questions with those of Deputies Kate O'Connell and Bernard J. Durkan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I will allow a final contribution by Deputy Bernard J. Durkan. I ask everyone to be conscious of the time as another group is due to join us at 11.20 a.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I suggest we hear concluding remarks from each group.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Harkin-Kelly, Mr. Mathews, Dr. Duddy, Ms Hetherington, Mr. Varley and Dr. Ryan for giving us some valuable insights into open disclosure. They will be taken on board as we progress through the legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: The joint committee will now engage in pre-legislative scrutiny of the open disclosures provisions contained in the Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015 with the Irish Patients Association and the States Claims Agency. On behalf of the committee, I welcome from the State Claims Agency Mr. Ciarán Breen, director, and Ms Catherine Tarrant, head of clinical claims; and from the Irish...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. McMahon. I invite Ms Murphy to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Murphy. I invite Mr. Molloy to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I invite Mr. Breen of the State Claims Agency to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: As Ms Murphy has to attend a lecture later, she has requested to make an additional statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: I thank Ms Murphy for her statement. I am conscious that members may have to attend the Dáil at 12.45 p.m. I ask Deputies Louise O'Reilly and Bernard J. Durkan to pool their statements and questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: There was a question on training and the experience in the two pilot hospitals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)
Michael Harty: There was another question on a legal accountability framework.