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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Chairman, I will wait. The questions I wish to ask are relevant to each other so I need responses to them as we go, if that is okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I will bring the conversation back to what the committee was for today. We are talking about doctors going to the Middle East and I know it is related but the committee meeting today is about doctors working as consultants in Ireland who are not on the specialist register. That is why we are here. We are all aware of the CervicalCheck scandal that has emerged over the last few days. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I do not mean to cut across Professor Murray. This morning, we are trying to have a conversation about specialists being registered and it moves off to why it is so difficult to hire doctors. I do not mean to cut across Professor Murray but, in the interests of time, can I get an answer to the question? I do not want to get into a conversation on why it is hard to hire doctors. I know the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that point. I acknowledge that recruitment and retention is a really important conversation but that is not what I asked about. Thus far, the answer that has been given to my question is that it is the doctor's employer. Who is a doctor's employer? Is it the hospital? Is it the HSE? Who ultimately is accountable for what is happening? Is it individual hospitals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Professor Murray for his answer. Do we have a situation in Ireland where a rogue hospital could, because of the severe difficulties in hiring specialists, start employing unqualified people, put them in specialist roles and present them to the public as specialists? Is that possible? Is there no higher authority in the State, within the Medical Council, the Department of Health,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Ms Mannion has said that it is regulated. Who is the regulator?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Is it the Medical Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: The HSE says that the Medical Council is in charge of regulating this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: The HSE has said that the Medical Council is in charge of that but Dr. Breslin has said the Medical Council is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Does Ms Mannion mean the hiring of doctors?
- 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