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Watt denies department was prying on families Updated / Wednesday, 5 May 2021 13:03 The Secretary General of the Department of Health has told the Oireachtas Health Committee that allegations made during an RTÉ Investigates programme were not true. Robert Watt said that there is a no evidence that the Department is prying on families. He said that a review of the protected disclosure carried out by Conleth Bradley SC found that the information held by the Department was the type that you would expect to see in cases such as this . Mr Watt also told the Committee that he was disappointed that the Children s Ombudsman commented on allegations made during the RTÉ Investigates programme. ....
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Updated / Sunday, 25 Apr 2021 15:38 Two recent reports published by the Department of Health leave a lot of questions unanswered In recent days, the Department of Health has published two reports it commissioned to examine allegations made in protected disclosures by Shane Corr, one of its senior civil servants. In March, RTÉ Investigates revealed that Mr Corr had raised concerns that the Department was secretly using private clinical and education information to build and maintain dossiers on children with autism who were involved in legal actions against the State. This was done without the knowledge or consent of parents. Each of the recently published reports appear to indicate that there are no significant causes for concern. But, together, the external report, produced by a senior counsel, and an internal review that was ordered following the RTÉ Investigates report leave a lot of questions unanswered. ....
RTÉ Investigates The Department of Health has published a redacted version of a report that assesses allegations made by Shane Corr, the whistleblower who exposed the building of dossiers on autistic children. The report confirms that the Department gathered sensitive information about the children, who were involved in long-dormant legal actions against the State. The Department also released a parallel report to its Secretary General, Robert Watt, which deals with the same issues. This internal review said there was no evidence that information such as school reports and medical details were sought directly from schools or clinicians. But it confirmed reports were received from the Department of Education and kept on file as part of what it describes as normal correspondence; that updates were sought from Health Service Executive service managers and community healthcare organisations and that, in six cases, reports from children s clinicians were found on ....
RTÉ Investigates The Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters has warned that the compiling of dossiers by the Department of Health on children with autism could be a significant breach of a United Nations convention. The committee, which met in private to discuss an RTÉ Investigates report regarding the dossiers, said it had grave concern about the allegations that sensitive and personal information was gathered about the children, who were involved in long-dormant legal actions against the State. The committee on Thursday demanded that the Departments of Health and Education account for potential infringements of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. ....