Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion

9:00 am

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

The Vice Chairman has dealt with the initial aspects of it. What are the actual rules? There must be a list of rules somewhere on when people can use headed paper and when then cannot.

Do we have any news on the roll-out of the male HPV vaccine? Do we have any new data on the uptake? We were up at 61% recently.

Yesterday in the Chamber, Deputy Clare Daly raised the case of the lady who died during an intervention into an ectopic pregnancy in Holles Street hospital. The Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, stated he was disappointed by the hospital which, I understand, is threatening to injunct the Minister for Health. Will the Minister comment on this situation? How does he see it moving forward? The committee has spoken previously about dragging people through judicial processes when they have been through extreme trauma. Is that really the way to treat people?

I welcome the trauma centres proposed by the Minister. Will the witnesses comment on the integration of this plan with the Sláintecare report? We are back to the structures of the HSE and how these trauma centres might fit into any proposed realignment of community health organisations and the training hospitals in each area. Is there any intention on the part of the HSE to educate people on the pathways to follow once they have a trauma or injury? I have long felt that many children in the accident and emergency departments in children's hospitals have not had a serious accident. They may just have a broken bone.

People in the community are not aware of some of the primary care centres, especially the centre in Smithfield for minor injuries. That is a really good set up. Many people in Dublin city do not know that is available.

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