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Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...this. That is how bad society is that we cannot take it as a given that when somebody, whether a clinician, a medic or even a company, discovers an error or misreading of such a vital test as a cervical smear test that they would immediately inform the patient. That there was an immediacy about that. The problem as we know far too well, and some people know to their detriment, is that...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Sorca Clarke: We have a number of opportunities here, which could not be any clearer. We have an opportunity to guarantee that we as legislators do all in our power to ensure that the cervical cancer scandal is never repeated; to introduce and provide true accountability and real transparency; and to give the 750,000 women who will have smear tests this year confidence that their needs, concerns and, in...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Chris Andrews: ...things in it and it is an important Bill. However, it will not build trust in the health system, where trust is in short supply. It will not build trust in the cancer screening process or the CervicalCheck system. It will not build trust in any of those. As has been said previously, we have no issues with what is in the Bill or the amendments but we have an issue with the process and...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this group of amendments and on this legislation. One of the central findings of the CervicalCheck scandal was showing up in lights the paternalistic nature of medicine and healthcare in Ireland. Ireland is not unique in that regard but we have a particular history, especially when it comes to women, poor people and people who are disadvantaged. In...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Réada Cronin: The CervicalCheck scandal is a scandal in which many people become seriously ill and die. We very much welcome this legislation and the opportunity to speak on it. We have no issue with what is in the Bill, as such, or with the amendments but we have a serious issue with the absence of the duty of candour in the Bill. We need open disclosure. We must have an obligation on the clinician to...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Mark Ward: ...was one of Vicky's core demands. Managing disclosure means there is a legal obligation on clinicians and healthcare providers to tell a woman if there is an issue with the reading of her cervical cancer screening slides. There was a consensus that the original Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill did not provide for this demand. As a united Opposition, we have said...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...a culture of open disclosure in our health and social services. However, it is fair to say that many aspects of the Bill have been informed by the very serious learnings from what happened with CervicalCheck. This includes the need to ensure accountability by service providers and clinicians in carrying out open disclosure to patients and their families. In that regard, the Bill and its...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: .... It is also important that I put on the record that everybody wants to arrive at the same place. That position is genuinely held by everybody in this Chamber. We all know how emotive the CervicalCheck scandal was and we all want to make sure that duty of candour and open disclosure is what it is. We have arrived, however, at an unsatisfactory place, where we have an important...