Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-26
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Paul Murphy (PBP), Dublin South-West

I am telling the Minister that was the case in March. I want to go back to the timeline. I think the Minister accepted that the reason things were published and processed was the article in The Ditch . I want to go all the way back to last year. Does the Minister know that the first freedom of information requests, FOIs, from the journalist, Pádraig Ó Meiscill, were submitted in October, then the surgeries or kyphectomies were suspended in November and then the internal review started? Does the Minister accept that the reason this whole thing kickstarted was not some internal process but external FOIs from a journalist?

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Sitting date: 2023-09-26