Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2025-11-12
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Mary Lou McDonald (SF), Dublin Central

One of the fundamental problems here is that there has been a strategy or an approach of delay, delay and deceive adopted with these parents in the case of Harvey. He was removed deliberately from the waitlist. That decision was taken despite the fact he had been judged fit for surgery by an outside consultant. That happened. The Minister knows this because the protected disclosure arrived on her desk on 31 August and arrived to the HSE on 12 September.

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Sitting date: 2025-11-12