Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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132. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Number 126 of 4 February 2015 and given the coroner's statement that issues of negligence and wrongdoing on the part of individual doctors may be appropriate in other fora and as part of other proceedings but are not part of the remit of any inquest or of the coroner, and notwithstanding the ongoing legal case, if he accepts that in his role as Minister for Health it is entirely appropriate to comment on the facts of the case; the action which he proposes to take on foot of this ruling and if this will include a Health Service Executive inquiry into the person's death and a Health Information and Quality Authority investigation into standards in the hospital concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2464/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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As this matter is the subject of a medico-legal case it would not be appropriate for me to comment further. I have asked the HSE to contact the Deputy with an update on the case.