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- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 43. In page 53, lines 10 and 11, to delete “a service provider or a person carrying on the business of providing a prescribed private health service” and substitute the following: “the Executive, the Agency, a service provider, a person carrying on the business of providing a prescribed private health service, or the registered provider of a...
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 44: In page 53, line 20, to delete “the draft report and shall furnish” and substitute “the draft report and, prior to publication, shall furnish”.
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 45: In page 53, to delete lines 23 to 25 and substitute the following: “(c) a service provider, (d) a person carrying on the business of providing a prescribed private health service, or (e) the registered provider of a designated centre or the person in charge of that designated centre if other than its registered provider.”
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for tabling the amendment. I do not intend to accept it, not because I disagree with much of what the Deputy has said but because I carefully considered this and the advice I have is that the specific provision is not required in the Bill to allow An Garda Síochána to prosecute the offences under the Act. Regulators such as HIQA, the chief inspector and the...
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, it is.
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I agree with much of what the Deputy has said, including in the context of CervicalCheck. I carefully considered the amendment and whether this particular incident could be included as a notifiable event. We looked around the world and could not find any system that includes this specific incident. The rationale is that it is vague. Many of the notifiable incidences are quite binary....
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: That is what is being worked through at the moment.
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: No. We will add something to this Bill.
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, essentially. The expert reference groups on interval cancer are involved in this. It is tricky because there can be a discordance that was flagged. The discordance may or may not have been due to negligence. It might be just, unfortunately as we have all become painfully aware, due to the limitations of the system. A discordance, in and of itself, is not necessarily a patient safety...
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, exactly. It is going much further than having to have established that a patient safety event happened. It comes before that. I ask the members to bear with me because there is a lot of work going on to figure out exactly how this will work. Essentially, what I have asked the Department is what the Deputy has just laid out. If we have an identified patient on an interval cancer...
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 51: In page 59, to delete line 2 and substitute “Section 53”. I will speak to amendments Nos. 51 to 54, inclusive. They are technical amendments to align the two items of legislation and ensure there is no discrepancy from a procedural perspective. They do not introduce any new substantive provisions to either Bill. The Civil Liability (Amendment) Act...
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 52: In page 59, to delete lines 13 to 16 and substitute the following: " 3. Section 7(1) The insertion of the following definitions: “ ‘notifiable incident’ has the meaning assigned to it by the Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Act 2022; ‘other than in person’, in relation to an open...
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 53: In page 64, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: " 10. Section 15(1)(f) By the substitution for paragraph (f) of the following paragraph: “(f) having regard to the information available, make arrangements for the preparation of the statement referred to in section 16(5), that is to be provided, in accordance with...
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 54: In page 64, after line 25, to insert the following: " 17. 17(3)(a) In section 17(3), in paragraph (a), to delete “, in the prescribed form,”. 18. 18. Section 17(3) new paragraph inserted In section 17(3), to insert the following paragraph after paragraph (a): “(aa) include, in the...
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 17: In page 35, line 26, after “(1)” to insert “and whether it was requested that the clarification be made other than in person”.
- Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes. That is right. I have had lengthy discussions with the Department on this. It does not fit neatly with this Bill. The serious patient safety issues which result in death or serious harm are very clear. They are binary, for example, where someone had something done to them in an operation which should not have been done or whatever it might be. As the Deputy said, legislating around...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (9 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 was signed into law on 20 December 2018 and commenced on 1 January 2019. Under section 7 of the Act, a review of the operation of the Act must be initiated within three years of the commencement of the Act, i.e., before January 2022. As I stated previously, the review will comprise a three-part approach to appraise the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (9 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As part of the Government’s ongoing efforts to protect public health and limit the spread of Covid-19, the Department of Health and the HSE worked together in 2020 to put arrangements in place to allow termination of pregnancy services in early pregnancy to be provided remotely. For the duration of the Covid-19 public health emergency, where the need for social distancing,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.