Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Women do not have to waive their right to take a case to court as a precondition of participating in the scheme. One can opt out of the scheme at any stage up to the point at which one accepts one's award. It is only on accepting an offer that a women must agree to discontinue her legal proceedings against any party arising out of a symphysiotomy or pubiotomy.

Significant disability means medically verifiable physical symptoms or conditions directly attributable to surgical symphysiotomy or pubiotomy that have had a serious and debilitating effect on the applicant's quality of life. These include and are not confined to pelvic instability, pelvic pain, dyspareunia, urinary incontinence, back pain and pain on walking that continued for more than three years after the operation was carried out. Anyone who can show they have had a symphysiotomy, even one with no complications, will get €50,000. Anyone who can show she had any of the symptoms for three years or more after the operation can apply for the €100,000, and I certainly encourage her to do so.

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