Deputy Regina Doherty announces this evening that Minister James Reilly, responding to her question today at the Health & Children Committee meeting, has agreed to establish an Oireachtas enquiry for the victims of Dr. Michael Shine.
“The Minister has promised that there will be a full enquiry into the Michael Shine case and all that were affected by it. For so long now, the people at the centre off this issue have been left with so many unanswered questions. When the planned referendum this October is passed, it will allow the Dail Committee to compel witnesses before it and a full enquiry can take place..
Minister Reilly stated the issue was about the abuse of patients and he believed that patients had suffered as a result of not being able to air matters and be believed.
Doherty stated “This enquiry will in no way mend the harm that was done by Dr Michael Shine and the subsequent treatment of victims, but it will go some way to giving those individuals involved some sort of relief.”
I have only been involved with Dignity 4 Patients for the past 5 months, but I am particularly pleased to have assisted in some small way to help achieve their goal.
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