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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: Given that it is the Minister's first time answering questions in her new capacity, I would expect her to paint a prettier picture than the one we anticipate. There is a lot to be said for trade deals around the world. I am totally in favour of doing business with different countries but very often these trade deals have led to various types of problems. Much of the research around CETA...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: While the Minister was busy looking under the bonnet of the Department of Justice and Equality and trying to defend the poor Garda Commissioner day and night, I was looking under a few other bonnets, including those of CETA and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, for several years. I can assure her that there are problems in these areas. The Minister mentioned beef....

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: We have worked together on these amendments. I do not want to be duplicating Deputy Daly's points and wasting everyone's time. She is more familiar with it all than I am.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State mentioned that we had the harmonised index of consumer prices and that we needed certainty, but that index only measures the price of consumer goods and does not take into account inflation or changes in medical or carer's costs. I agree that we need certainty, but the Minister of State is only referring to certainty for the Department in terms of how much it might have...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: I do not mind.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: If we accept the philosophy that we can table these amendments because it will delay matters, we would be passing the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017 before the summer recess, but we are not. It will go to autumn because it deserves more consideration.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 8:In page 11, line 13, to delete "may" and substitute "shall". We have argued this point already. Under the proposed legislation, the Minister will not be required to review the indices used in calculating periodic payments orders, PPOs, every five years but may do so, if so inclined. One does not need to be a rocket scientist to know that when the word "may" is used...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: Open disclosure builds trust and confidence, which must be very valuable commodities in this area.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State is making our argument, in that open disclosure would definitely build trust and confidence. That is the direction in which we need to go. I appreciate that from the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 16:In page 21, line 34, to delete “could have resulted in such injury, or harm, to the patient” and substitute “such injury, or harm, to the patient could have resulted”.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: I must go to the House as I have a question. Deputy Daly will move the amendment.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: I will listen to the Minister of State first.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: I have one question. Will the Minister of State explain why information that comes to light at an early stage may not be used at a later stage in court? He might have explained it already when I was not here.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: The doctor might say that on the day he made an apology, he was not feeling great.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: Following its pre-legislative discussion of the Bill, the Joint Committee in Health issued a report showing that the evidence to show voluntary disclosure is preferable to mandatory disclosure is drawn from one study published in 2000. The study was cited by the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance in 2008. Given that the study was carried out 17 years ago, it no longer may be...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: On the last point, which we can come back to later, where is the line drawn on what is serious and what is not? Maybe there is one I do not know about. I understand the argument the Minister of State is making and where he is coming from. I do not think it is a difference of philosophy between what we are arguing and what he is arguing. One of the biggest differences is the animal we are...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: I agree. We all make mistakes every day. Not a day goes by that I do not make mistakes. The problem with our police force and our health service is that an incredible amount of energy has gone into denying that the mistakes were made.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: Yes, but it is-----

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: The structure needs to change.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: I have one reply to that. I am a born optimist as well.