Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is an important for us to say. Women have complications. They do not even know the right questions to ask. I know I had my appendix out when I was a child because there is a scar. If, however, a woman knows there was an intervention but it was not necessarily mesh, she is already disadvantaged, which brings up the whole question of consent in the first instance, but let us move on from there.

I have a concern over consent with regard to treatment if you have a medical community that in the first instance, in some instances is denying the existence of the complications because it is saying they are psychosomatic. If that is the first resort, and in the case of one woman I know of, that is exactly what she has been told repeatedly, trying to move beyond that is difficult. If the first recourse is that this is one's imagination, for instance, there is the lady Ms Martin mentioned who has had numerous other interventions and then goes back eventually, it is nowhere on the checklist of consultants to check whether there is a mesh here and maybe there are complications because they are not even in that sphere to consider it.

When a treatment is recommended, if there is a final decision to treat or to intervene, in that instance, if they are not open to a full removal and they are limiting the options, it is not fully-informed consent to intervention.

Is that not the case?