Overview
- The terms of reference will be co-drafted by parental advocacy groups with the Department of Health and the Tánaiste, according to a joint statement with Harvey Morrison Sherratt’s parents.
- A follow-up meeting between the families, advocates and ministers is scheduled in three weeks to advance the inquiry planning.
- Harvey’s mother called for a public statutory inquiry to ensure a wide remit and the ability to hold people to account, noting the legal form has not been set.
- HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster issued an apology to Harvey’s parents for their experience of being let down by the healthcare system.
- The family said ministers provided no new information on why Harvey was removed from CHI’s urgent surgery list last year, a decision they learned about only after the fact.