Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Women vomiting 100 or more times a day, vomiting so much they are bursting blood vessels in their eyes or rupturing their oesophagus, feeling so sick they choose to terminate a much-wanted pregnancy rather than suffering for the entire pregnancy with this illness, and suffering post-traumatic distress and considering suicide: that is what happens when you have hyperemesis. There is a drug that can help with this but the Government has made it so difficult to access this drug under the drug payment scheme that it is virtually impossible to do so. There is no medical or licensing reason for the way the Government has set that up. If I was more sceptical, I would imagine it is a financial limitation that is being put on this. What is the Government going to do to reduce and remove these barriers for women who are suffering so much during their pregnancy?

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