Charlie Taylor reports:
Opposition parties have rejected Government claims that emergency legislation is needed to get information from the Health Service Executive (HSE) about children who have died in State care.
Speaking during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil today, Fine Gael party leader Enda Kenny said that under the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) Amendment Act 2000, there is an obligation in law for agencies such as the HSE to report “adverse incidents” to the Clinical Indemnity Scheme.
Read more in the Irish Times.
It seems every country struggles with what often seem to be conflicting laws when it comes to revealing private or protected information Then we get frustrated that a law seems to block us from sharing information that we want shared under particular circumstances and then someone eventually reminds us that there’s another law that permitted us to do what we wanted to do anyway. And if there’s no such other law, then everyone scrambles to write a new exemption to law….