Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We spoke about cancer services and I mentioned that the GP was the person on the ground dealing with patients. An earlier delegate spoke about health literacy. It is something that occurred to me in my role. When people attend private fertility clinics, sometimes only the fertility element is focused on. They do not look at anything else such as mental health or something more sinister in the bowel or that area. Does Professor Daly see it as a problem if a fertility clinic focuses on that issue only and washes its hands of everything else outside the area of the ovaries and uterus? Is there anything he can suggest we can do to address the issue? I know that people are signing disclaimers in places where there is 3-D scanning. I am not 100% convinced that service users are aware that it is a less holistic approach and has just one focus. I have seen it happening in the community. What is Professor Daly's experience?