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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: Can I stop Dr. MacLellan there? What Dr. MacLellan is telling me then is there is at least one case of where information from a private doctor consultation was held?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: Where did the HSE get the information?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: I am asking where the HSE got the information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: This is not the question that I asked. I did not ask whether it was sought. I want to understand the process here. What Dr. MacLellan is saying is that an individual clinician gave the information to the HSE who then gave information to the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: Can I ask Mr. Watt was there any sensitive medical or educational information on children in any of these files or in any way held by the Department?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: Would the parents of those children be aware of the exact nature of all of that sensitive information in all cases?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: I am talking about in all cases. The question I asked was not about most cases. I am asking Mr. Watt about all cases and whether the Department had on file, or however Mr. Watt might wish to characterise it, any sensitive medical or educational information that did not come from the plaintiffs and that the plaintiffs would not have been aware of.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: This is what I am getting at, because those service updates came from the HSE. I am asking if any of those service updates contained sensitive medical and educational information?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: Mr. Watt is telling me that in all cases all that information which came from service providers or through the HSE would have been information the plaintiffs would have been aware of. Therefore, there was no information of any sensitive nature, medical, educational or otherwise, on any of these files that the plaintiffs and their families would not have been aware of.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: I understand and that is my point. I am saying that in that information-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: That is the whole point Mr. Watt. The families have a perception that this was the State again pushing back against its weakest citizens and trying to force families into settling cases because of the nature of the information being compiled and stored. When Mr. Watt states that service updates were given, therefore, I am asking him whether in all the cases, including in cases where maybe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: I understand all that. Mr. Watt made that point in his opening statement. Turning to school reports, where did they come from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: Returning to Mr. Watt, parents will be looking at the totality of this situation and the totality of information being held. Some of it may have come from the plaintiffs and some of it did not. That is why we need full and open disclosure and we must have a review of the policy here. I state that because Mr. Watt was talking about this being standard practice, and people are reasonably...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: Has that been done proactively? There is no need to wait. Has the Department contacted all the families, told them about the information it has on each family, the broad areas involved and that more information will be provided if the families want it? Surely there is an obligation on the Department to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: We can differ on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: Mr. Watt can have his view. My view is that there is a difficulty here with some of the information on file. Some information of a very serious and sensitive medical and educational nature was being held on children, and that was being collected, in some instances without, in my view, the knowledge of the parents involved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: I will finish on this. I am not interested in nor have I sought to get into issues regarding data protection or even the legalities of all of this, because other people will make those judgments. I am looking here at the process and what Mr. Watt's Department has said was standard practice. I am also looking at the type of information which was held, some of which came through service...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: It may not trouble Mr. Watt, but it troubles me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: If I can make one point, I do not doubt-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)
David Cullinane: -----that investments have been made. However, reading any of the statements which have come from all the advocacy groups representing parents and children with autism and special needs-----