Micheal Martin responded to Mary Lou McDonald at Leader’s Questions after she raised issues about the care received by the nine-year-old who died in July after waiting years for spinal surgery.

Harvey’s parents Stephen Morrison and Gillian Sherratt say in the time he waited for surgery the curve in his spine went from 75 degrees to 130 degrees.

And by the time he was operated on last December, the curve had reached the point where it could not be fully corrected.

At the weekend, The Sunday Times reported a series of allegations made by a whistleblower in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) who alleged Harvey was taken off a surgery waiting list in the summer of 2024 because CHI believed he was a palliative patient.

Ms McDonald claimed “it was widely known that Harvey was deliberately moved

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