Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 April 2018
428. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the sum of €6,600 paid to a person (details supplied) in respect of the Symphysiotomy and Pubiotomy Review - An Imaging Perspective, which was published as Appendix 1 to the Clark report, was additional to the sum of €58,950 which was paid to the person from 2014 to 2016 under the heading of clinical advice to the symphysiotomy payment scheme. [18000/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Surgical Symphysiotomy Ex-gratia Payment Scheme, which was approved by Government, concluded with the publication of the Report of its independent Assessor, Judge Maureen Harding Clark, on 22 November 2016.
Records of payments made relating to the Scheme show that, following instructions from Judge Clark, my Department arranged for total payments of €58,950, less statutory deductions, to be made to the person in question. This amount included the €6,600 referred to by the Deputy. That sum was for reading and commenting on one of the draft chapters in the Judge's report and preparing and furnishing the review for the Judge, which formed Appendix 1 of the Report, and for attending 12 meetings with her. The balance of the payments to the person were for the preparation of radiological reports for the Judge relating to individual applicants to the Scheme.
