1019. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no statutory or regulatory mechanism within CORU that allows ethically bound health and social care professionals to report systemic or organisational breaches of professional ethics, as distinct from individual fitness-to-practise complaints; her views on whether the absence of such a mechanism places the burden of ethical responsibility entirely on individual professionals rather than organisations, thereby making speaking up professionally perilous and potentially self-sacrificing, and undermining the stated public-protection purpose of professional regulation; and the consideration that has been given to introducing a protected, independent reporting pathway for systemic ethical breaches within the professional regulatory framework. [4262/26]

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1019. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the reason there is no statutory or regulatory mechanism within CORU that allows ethically bound health and social care professionals to report systemic or organisational breaches of professional ethics, as distinct from individual fitness-to-practise complaints; her views on whether the absence of such a mechanism places the burden of ethical responsibility entirely on individual professionals rather than organisations, thereby making speaking up professionally perilous and potentially self-sacrificing, and undermining the stated public-protection purpose of professional regulation; and the consideration that has been given to introducing a protected, independent reporting pathway for systemic ethical breaches within the professional regulatory framework. [4262/26]

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