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Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: I do not believe the Minister has read it because she has done nothing about the issue. She would not produce this kind of rubbish if she had read the report.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister will occasionally have to think about what people say to her.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: To some degree the HSE did engage in overkill on the matter because it tried to implement standards that had not been signed off. The HSE was on autopilot and when that goes wrong one must be concerned as to what could happen. It is the Minister's job to ensure that these things do not happen. The Minister has not yet signed off on some of the standards that are being employed in nursing...

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister did not sign off on them yet they are being used throughout the health service. Is the Minister in charge of the Irish health service? The Minister knows that this legislation will not protect anybody. Senior management, who chose to ignore things going wrong for many years, will not take responsibility for their actions. Usually an unfortunate individual down the line is...

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: They would not be known publicly.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: They went to a solicitor and so had a way to keep their identities hidden. They will not be covered in this legislation to approach a solicitor in the same way because a solicitor is not the authorising officer.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister agrees the legislation will not even protect those who exposed Dr. Neary and the events at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital eight years ago.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: They would not be protected under the Bill.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: I fail to see how that is the case. Perhaps the Minister will explain how the two midwives in question would be protected because my reading of the legislation is obviously wrong. The reason the Bill will fail is that the Minister did not provide an option allowing people to contact a truly independent person. She will not achieve the objective she has set for the so-called amendment on...

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: On a point of order, as the Minister of State seems to be responding to the Second Stage speeches and is reading his own speech could he please answer two of my questions? Would this legislation cover the two midwives from Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital who went to a solicitor? Would it protect someone who came to me as a Member of the Oireachtas? I did not ask many questions in my Second...

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: On what basis?

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: They went to a solicitor. Is the solicitor an independent authorising officer?

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: They went to a solicitor which is not the proper procedure. They should go to an authorised person within that unit.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: If the incident occurred today they would not have followed procedures by going to a solicitor.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The solicitor is not management.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: They are obviously not following procedure if they go to a solicitor because the solicitor is not part of the management of the local Health Service Executive office. The legislation would not have covered them.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: We have a problem here already.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Who makes the complaint? Can the solicitor carry the complaint back to management?

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The solicitor cannot say what they are doing so to that extent they are covered by client confidentiality but this legislation does not protect them. That is a different matter.

Health Bill 2006: Instruction to Committee. (20 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: What would happen if they came to me?