Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 2 March 2006
34 Mr. Sherlock asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the long delay in publishing the report of the inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) in Monaghan Hospital in October 2005 in view of the undertaking she gave Dáil Éireann in October 2005 that the report would be completed within eight weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8563/06]
View answerFollowing the death of Mr. Patrick Walsh in Monaghan Hospital on 14 October 2005, the Health Service Executive commissioned Mr. Declan Carey, a consultant surgeon at Belfast City Hospital and an honorary senior lecturer at Queen's University, and Professor John Monson, Professor of Surgery, University of Hull, to carry out an independent and external review. The executive has advised my Department that the review has commenced with an anticipated completion date of late March-April 2006.
