Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 6 July 2004
370 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 27 January 2004, when he expects to receive the report of the independent review into the circumstances of the death of a person (details supplied); and the reason a year after this person’s death, the promised report has not been published. [20347/04]
Amharc ar fhreagraOn the 23 July last I announced that I had convened a review panel to conduct an independent review of the events surrounding the tragic death of the person concerned. The members of the panel are Mr. David Hanly, management consultant, Ms Kay O'Sullivan, director of nursing at Cork University Hospital, and Dr. Shakeel A. Qureshi, paediatric cardiologist at Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospital, London. The terms of reference of the panel are to consider the report of the ERHA in concerning the events of 30 June 2003 at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, and to make such further inquiries and conduct such interviews as the panel considers necessary; to address the questions raised by the family; to examine protocols and procedures relevant to this incident having regard to prevailing standards of best practice and to examine their application in this case; to report to the Minister; and to make such recommendations as it sees fit. Following the review, both reports will be made available. The work of the review panel is ongoing and I am not in a position at this stage to say when the report will become available.
