Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Committee on Public Petitions

Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Looking at the symptoms, every one of us has had something like that. It is something to realise it could be something more serious and that it is in many cases. Deputy McAuliffe is here too. He has raised this through parliamentary questions and I thank him for that.

The big concern I have is that so little money seems to be involved here. As Mr. Hughes said, we raise awareness for cancer, speeding and numerous other things, all of which is justified and required. We have eight deaths a day, or 3,000 a year, and so little money is involved but there is not a massive campaign to make people aware of it. I do not like comparing it but if we had eight deaths a day from road accidents, there would be uproar-----

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