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

Maybe if feelings are so important we should have used them when we were trying how to decide on dealing with telling patients. Feelings might have really come to the fore if we were putting patients at the centre of this, not data.

Earlier, Dr. O'Keeffe referred to her role in the HPV vaccine programme. I refer to any elected Deputy in this House who, through their reckless and irresponsible contributions, has previously contributed to the downward trend in the uptake of the HPV vaccine. Dr. O'Keeffe quoted figures earlier, I thought that the rates were 87% down to 51% and now we are back up to 62%, but maybe I am wrong. As a direct result of people in these Houses making reckless, ill-informed commentary on the HPV vaccine -----