Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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126. To ask the Minister for Health if the internal review into the deaths of 74 University Hospital Limerick patients who tested positive for CPE has been published; and if he will provide a copy of same. [22913/18]

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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127. To ask the Minister for Health when an independent external review by a senior microbiologist from the UK into the deaths of 74 University Hospital Limerick patients who tested positive for CPE will be completed. [22914/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 126 and 127 together.

My understanding is that both of these particular reports were commissioned by the University of Limerick Hospital Group (ULHG) and I have referred your questions to the HSE for direct response to the Deputy.

I wish, however to assure the Deputy that I take the risks of healthcare associated infections very seriously. In this regard I launched Ireland's National Action Plan on AMR last October and declared CPE as a public health emergency and it continues to be managed as such.