Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions
Dail Éireann — 2025-10-22
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Gillian Toole (IND), Meath East

All of the processes have been followed, including contacting the OPDC. By referencing the other agencies, my point is that there is silence. This is a matter of serious public health. When I cross-check the criteria and scope with the Covid-19 evaluation committee that the Department of the Taoiseach established, under scope and exclusions are the very matters included within this protected disclosure: the care of older people in nursing homes between 2020 and 2022; the administration of gene therapy to people during the same period; and various other evidential and research-based issues that have arisen since then, even in other jurisdictions, and have been the subject of parliamentary questions.
I would again ask the question - will there be an inquiry into this protected disclosure as a matter of urgency?

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Sitting date: 2025-10-22