Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Bríd Smith raised an issue on the validation report from the 221+ group and Deputy Kelly will know about this from his contact with the group. In the interest of fairness, this was a report sought by the patient advocates. They issued a statement, yesterday or the day before, very much welcoming the work. If Deputy Smith was of the view it was something the patient advocates did not want this was absolutely not the case. I agree with her that even though it does show, thankfully, that a large proportion of women in the 221+ group do not currently have an active disease, anyone reading the report will still see their treatment has been harrowing and what they have gone through has been harrowing and life-altering in many cases. I hope Deputy Bríd Smith does not get the impression that anyone is suggesting all is well. Far from it. It is important to have this information out there. It was information sought by the patients.

I am really pleased with what Deputy Coppinger has said about the anti-vaccers, some of whom are, sadly, elected to the House. In a debate about women's health to have people leading the charge who oppose any form of abortion for any woman even in a crisis and who oppose a vaccination for a woman that could prevent her from getting cancer later in life-----

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