Dáil debates

Thursday, 9 July 2015

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions

Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme

9:35 am

Photo of Caoimhghín Ó CaoláinCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

2. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the significant level of discontent, and, in some cases, outright dejection being felt and expressed by victims of the barbaric practice of symphysiotomy, at the unsympathetic and adversarial conduct of the Government-initiated payment scheme established for the ever-decreasing number of aged survivors; if he will undertake to address the serious shortcomings in its out-working, including the disbelieving disposition of its principal, and the confrontational and interrogational operation of the process; the qualifications of the various medical experts employed by the scheme; if he is satisfied that they are sufficiently qualified to make judgments on the particular cases presenting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27899/15]

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