Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Joint Committee On Health

Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion

Photo of Neasa HouriganNeasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will come to Professor McCarthy but I would be interested in how we are doing that. We are contextualising this as medical issue for a small baby, but for the parents it is also a human rights issue and certainly my experience of how a disability was contextualised was negative. A number of services, for example, An Garda Síochána, are being encouraged to undertake training on the person-centred, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, idea of people with different abilities, not necessarily a highly medicalised approach. Anyway, I am not sure how helpful that is.

Professor McCarthy wanted to say something.

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