Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Two issues occurred to me while Mrs. O'Donnell was speaking. By comparison with other European countries, has she any statistics on the number in this country who have had professional cosmetic surgery? I accept she cannot talk about the other scenario but I wonder in that regard.

As somebody who was badly burnt when I was aged four and who spent months in Dr. Steevens' Hospital, I am shocked to think that we do not have in this country in this day and age a head surgeon for children with burns in the paediatric hospital that is serving the country and which is only a ten-minute walk from my home. I am horrified. I did not know that. This is something the committee should look at. If it is all down to finance, I can say this.