ACCORDING to one Limerick councillor, Tánaiste Simon Harris is not fit to remain in office and must resign immediately.
So said Aontú councillor Sarah Beasley, who made her comments in the wake of the death of Harvey Morrison Sherratt, the nine-year-old child from Dublin who waited years for surgery for scoliosis, this past July.
The Limerick City North representative said that, as a mother, she cannot imagine the anguish that Harvey’s parents and loved ones are going through at the loss of their little boy.
“Their grief is compounded by the fact that Harvey’s death was not inevitable, it could have been avoided had he received the treatment he desperately needed in a timely fashion,” Cllr Beasley commented.
“In 2017, as Minister for Health, Harris promised that no child would wait for longer than four months for a scoliosis operation. We are now in 2025 and a sweet little innocent child has died because the pressure on his little lungs became too much to bear due to the curvature of his spine that worsened the longer he waited for surgery.”
Harvey, who died at the end of July, was on the scoliosis waiting list for 33 months before he got his spinal surgery last December.
Tánaiste Simon Harris has agreed to meet “in the near future” with Harvey’s grieving parents, Stephen Morrison and Gillian Sherratt, from Clondalkin in Dublin.
Deputy Harris has also sought, through the Health Minister, a full multi-disciplinary report on the timeline of Harvey’s care.
