‘Time isn’t the concern’: Mother of Harvey Morrison Sherratt backs full probe into CHI scoliosis care

The announcement that health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Tánaiste Simon Harris would be recommending the inquiry came after they met on Wednesday evening with Gillian and Stephen Morrison Sherratt. Picture: Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie

The announcement that health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Tánaiste Simon Harris would be recommending the inquiry came after they met on Wednesday evening with Gillian and Stephen Morrison Sherratt. Picture: Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie

The mother of a nine-year-old boy who died in July after waiting more than three years for surgery for his scoliosis says her family is prepared to wait as long as it takes for the statutory inquiry into scoliosis and spina bifida care at Children's Health Ireland (CHI) to conclude.

Speaking on Thursday morning, Harvey Morrison Sherratt's mother Gillian said the length of the inquiry was not the concern. “Our concern is that it gets the answers that we need,” she said.

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