Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Provision of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors: Discussion

6:55 pm

Professor Jonathan Hourihane:

Fifteen minutes. Everybody can afford 15 minutes to save their child's life.

We train lay members of the community but just because they have been trained by me does not make them a health profession. We are relying on those people to deliver the training to teachers, scout groups and guide leaders and soccer coaches. That is a HSE responsibility which has not been taken up by it.