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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as ucht teacht isteach inniu.. I have spoken to many people who voted on both sides of the referendum with regard to this particular review. The issue which raised the most eyebrows is around the three-day wait period. What people find hard to understand is how such a concrete recommendation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Is that not a major absence from this? In the evidence which we have heard today, many people have been spoken to with regard to this key element of her proposal, and the group of is maybe up to 2,000 or 3,000 women, given the figures which we know. Yet nobody has spoken to them and asked them if that three-day period was beneficial in being able to weigh up this enormous decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is a decision which was come to, without asking, speaking to, consulting with, investigating or researching at all any women who actually took the three-day wait period as an opportunity to change their minds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I have only got five minutes, and there are two minutes left. The other issue which I want to talk about is adverse incidents. Baby Christopher was born in the National Maternity Hospital. He was a fully healthy baby born aborted under the foetal fatal abnormality element of the Bill. Did Ms O'Shea speak to his mother?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Did she speak to any of three women who had-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. One of the aspects of this particular review is there seems to be a clash over access and the qualification of the medical professional who delivers care for the mother. I have spoken to the mother in this case. She is disappointed that she has not had a conversation with Ms O'Shea. In her view the idea of reducing it to one obstetrician to make the decision would mean the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: In this particular case the woman involved said it would have benefited-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: She said a second opinion would have helped in terms of accuracy in the diagnosis and the severity of the reality of what the baby would present with at birth. It denied the parents an opportunity to ask questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: That is from me speaking to the mother.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of rehabilitation training funding allocation per school-leaver and adult service-user accessing HSE-funded training and day services, within each county, in tabular form. [26513/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is now the policy that children accessing CDNT services are transferred to HSE community services if they have not been seen or have not received an appointment for services for six months; if so, the rationale for this change in policy; and if he will provide a breakdown of the number of children who...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 137. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff for each specialised support service within each CDNT for each of the past five years. [26491/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if the accident and emergency department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda has been closed to new patients at any point over the past two years; if so, when it was closed; the length of time it was closed for; the reasons; and if his Department has received forms or letters of complaint from patients due to these closures. [26488/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 173. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff for each community care service within HSE community services for each CHO area for each of the past five years. [26492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (31 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of people waiting for each community care service within HSE community services, by each CHO area and each county, including waiting times, in tabular form. [26493/23]

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I want to mention a tangential issue, namely, the crisis affecting nursing homes at present. The Ministers of State will be aware that nursing homes are closing right across the country and that many are blaming what they call fair deal discrimination. These nursing homes claim funding is insufficient to meet their spiralling inflation costs and the figures bear this out. Recently...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: It is still less than the increase.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: The reduction in excise duty on fuel is due to lapse in two days' time. This will put an extra 5 cent on diesel and an extra 6 cent on petrol, which is a significant jump. It will hit families extremely hard. Hiking excise duty when so many families are in poverty and so many families are in arrears on energy bills is the opposite of what must be done at the moment. Figures released to me...