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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: No, I am not. Who is responsible for ensuring that consultants are actually consultants? Is it the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Is the HSE responsible for what is happening here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: How long has the HSE been aware that this was going on? I refer to the specific issue of the public walking in to see consultants who are not consultants. We have evidence from an opening statement provided by one of the professional bodies stating "the most basic professional standards are not being observed." Who has the responsibility to ensure that the most basic professional standards...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: How long has the HSE known that this is going on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I know. How long has the HSE known? We have a report that 650 so-called consultants operate as specialists in this country but are not on the specialist register and the Medical Council has walked us through the figures. If the HSE is responsible for making sure that doctors are actually doctors, how long has the HSE known that specialist doctors are not specialist doctors in some cases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Is that only since September 2015?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Was the law requiring specialists to be on the specialist register changed in 2008?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: That means the HSE never looked into this matter for seven years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes. It was part of the role of Ms Mannion's predecessor to be aware of the matter too. From the perspectives of Ms Mannion and ourselves, it is great that she came in and found this issue. From the public's perspective, it should not matter who is in the role within the HSE. My next question is not specifically directed at Ms Mannion. When did the HSE become aware that we had...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I repeat, how long has the HSE known about this matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Has the HSE issued a directive to stop the practice? Does the HSE still stand behind the practice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I wish to ask the professional bodies how serious a clinical risk this is. From the public's perspective, we have heard about CervicalCheck. Doctors are withholding important information from patients in some cases to the point that, when referring to the ethical duty of consultants and activities relating to CervicalCheck, the Taoiseach said in the Chamber yesterday that the guidelines...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: If I could ask Dr. Ryan for the short version of that answer. Does he believe there is a clinical risk attached?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I apologise for intervening, but for members of the public who are watching this and who are not aware of the details of the High Court case, could Dr. Ryan give me a "Yes" or "No" answer. Is there clinical risk attached to what we are talking about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: In Dr. Ryan's professional opinion-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: -----is there a clinical; risk attached to what we are discussing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: With the Chair's indulgence, could I get the opinion of Dr. Gilligan and the Medical Council on whether is there a clinical risk to the Irish public in the context of consultants who are not on the specialist register and who are working or acting as specialists?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Could Dr. Breslin say that again?