Question from Deputy Pádraig Rice - PQ 22359-26

To ask the Minister for Health if the external expert panel ( The External Expert Panel established following the publication of the Independent Audit on Hip Surgery Thresholds for Children with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip. ) has the authority to seek additional external subspecialist expertise in particularly complex cases where further clinical input may be required;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. -Pádraig Rice