Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Joint Committee On Health
Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion
Neasa 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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