Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion

Photo of Frances BlackFrances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will try to be as brief as I can. I thank the witnesses for the fantastic work they are doing. They are doing phenomenal work on the ground.

I am very interested in the alcohol programme. I know that Dr. Helen McMonagle referred to the stigma and spoke a little about it, but I am extremely interested in this area. There seems to be a significant moral model and stigma around alcohol-related brain injuries and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and at one point Dr. McMonagle said that people are passed between pillar and post and fall between two stools. There seems to be a lack of compassion and empathy-----

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