Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

The only time a doctor's name is ever recorded is where a fitness to practise inquiry finds against him or her. His or her name would go out to the medical media around the world and to the High Court. Where no professional misconduct has been found and where the doctor has proved he or she has no case to answer, his or her name is not mentioned, the papers are destroyed and the matter is kept in-house. Other medics would know the doctor was before a fitness to practise inquiry but that is another issue. There is nothing we can to do to stop people talking. Where a case against a doctor falls, he or she does not come up for mention anywhere. There would be no mention of his or her name on any file.