A Romanian surgeon who had difficulty ordering tests for sick children and who it was alleged did not know how to scrub up properly for theatre has been ordered to notify the Medical Council if he ever returns to Ireland.

A Medical Council Fitness to Practise Inquiry made no finding of professional misconduct against a former surgeon whose colleagues had raised numerous concerns about his competency.

A former paediatric surgeon struggled to put on hospital gloves and was unable to write clinical notes, a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry has heard.

Crumlin Children's Hospital says it responded promptly when serious concerns were identified over a doctor's competency.