Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is expected to bring a memo to Cabinet recommending the establishment of a statutory public model of inquiry into the care provided to children with scoliosis and spina bifida.
The development follows a meeting last week between Tánaiste Simon Harris, Ms Carroll MacNeill and the parents of Harvey Morrison and relevant advocacy groups.
Harvey, who was from Clondalkin in Dublin, had spina bifida and scoliosis.
He was nine years old when he died in July.
He had waited a number of years for spinal surgery and was first placed on the waiting list in February 2022.
It is expected Minister Carroll MacNeill will tell her ministerial colleagues that a considerable body of work will be required to bring the inquiry to fruition, and a facilitator should be appointed to scope the content of potential terms of reference, in collaboration with stakeholders.
After the meeting last week, Harvey's mother, Gillian Sherratt, said the Government has agreed in principle to a statutory public inquiry which will look at Harvey's case and how other children with spina bifida and scoliosis have been dealt with.
Earlier this month, a newspaper reported claims that Harvey was taken off a surgery waiting list, because Children's Health Ireland (CHI) believed he was a palliative patient.
The Sunday Times said the claims were made by a whistleblower within CHI in a Protected Disclosure which is currently under investigation.
