Overview
- Tánaiste Simon Harris and Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill will bring a memo to Cabinet next week recommending a statutory public inquiry.
- Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he had no prior knowledge of the whistleblower’s claims and called the alleged list removal incomprehensible and a matter for inquiry.
- A CHI whistleblower alleged Harvey was taken off the urgent surgery list in summer 2024 after being deemed palliative, despite a Great Ormond Street consultant judging him operable once bone density improved.
- The protected disclosure was sent to the Minister in the summer, forwarded to the Protected Disclosures Commissioner, passed to the HSE in September, and CHI says it only received it this week.
- Harvey’s parents say they learned of the alleged removal from a newspaper report, as campaigners seek answers against rising waiting lists despite higher procedure volumes this year.