Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Cochlear Ear Implants: Discussion
6:00 pm
Ms Danielle Ryan:
If a patient goes to England, he or she will have one ear as an Irish ear and one ear as an English ear. Cochlear implants are so technical. Patients have to go in for tuning sessions. They change the programmes on them constantly. The patient will hear one type of sound from one ear and cannot balance the implants the way he or she could if both were done in the same way.