Health minister shares son’s neonatal brain injury as medical negligence overhaul questioned

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill shared her family’s experience as TDs pressed for long-awaited reforms to medical negligence claims and maternity hospital accountability

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has spoken in personal terms about her child who suffered a neonatal injury during a discussion on compensation payouts by the State. Picture: Moya Nolan

Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has spoken in personal terms about her child who suffered a neonatal injury during a discussion on compensation payouts by the State.

“It is important that I declare an interest in this to the chair," she said at the health committee.