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Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland estimated to have the eating condition ARFID; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: 177. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the equality of access to treatment for people in Ireland with ARFID, with reference to geographical location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10421/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: 178. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the equality of access to treatment for people in Ireland with ARFID and another associated or complicating condition, such as ASD, with reference to geographical location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: 264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that young LGBTQ people in Ireland are being targeted on social media with advertisements for conversion therapy; and the measures his Department plans to take to address the issue. [10812/23]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I welcome everybody to the meeting. Apologies have been received from Deputy O'Donoghue and Senator Warfield. All those present in the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of our private and public meetings on 15 and 16 February 2023,...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: Our next business is Mr. Joseph Hughes's Petition No. 52 of 2022, Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign. I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege, and the practices of the Houses with regard to references you may make to other persons in your evidence. The evidence of witnesses physically present, or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts, is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Hughes. Before I call members, I would like to pass our condolences to Mr. Hughes and his family on the death of Sean. Reading the opening statement was frightening. I apologise for the ignorance I had in regard to sepsis. I did not realise the figures were so high.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: Looking at the symptoms, every one of us has had something like that. It is something to realise it could be something more serious and that it is in many cases. Deputy McAuliffe is here too. He has raised this through parliamentary questions and I thank him for that. The big concern I have is that so little money seems to be involved here. As Mr. Hughes said, we raise awareness for...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: -----if there was not an awareness campaign. I will ask Mr. Hughes more questions later and will let members speak. I ask Senator Murphy if I can call Deputy McAuliffe, since he is here now.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: He is coming in and out from the Committee of Public Accounts.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: Early intervention is the key. Given how much money would be saved by not letting the infection develop, as well as the potential for deaths and major health complications, that would pay for any campaign, as far as I can see.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I do not think there is any doubt that the success of the radio advertisement is enough evidence for any Minister or Department to see that advancing it onto national television could have an unbelievable impact. The figures are that annually, 50 million people worldwide get sepsis, of whom 11 million die. Two out of every five cases are children. These are frightening statistics. As a...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: We can call in the HSE. We can do the information session to help move things on. Why has the name of this been changed in the past couple of years? It is now called sepsis. Has anyone any idea?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: As has been said, Mr. Hughes, if there is early intervention and signs-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: -----there is no need to be in those hospital settings if that is where the infection kicks off.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: Following on from what Deputy Devlin has said, and this is not a criticism of anyone in the health service, but is it widespread within the health service that this service does not recognise the symptoms of this condition?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: In the running of any campaign, upon which I believe everybody would be in agreement, one of the striking images from the speed ads, for example, which are on the television is when the family members are actually talking. It is the human factor, like Mr. Hughes's story, which very much hits home to people when they are watching ads on the television. I have two quick questions before I...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: I congratulate the foundation for the work it does and I would say I am speaking for everybody in saying that. Does Deputy Buckley wish to make a further contribution?

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: The Deputy is taking the words I had written down here. The money that has been spent is actually frightening given it is having no effect. Something needs to change if an agency is spending the money that is being spent. Eight deaths a day is a frightening statistic for something that is so easily preventable. To be spending that kind of money, and those kinds of statistics are still...

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Mr. Joseph Hughes and Irish Sepsis Foundation (2 Mar 2023)

Martin Browne: We are very sorry about what happened to Mr. Hughes and his wife, Karen Phoenix, and their family. If there is anything that we can do as a committee, we will. We will try to reduce those figures as much as we possibly can. We will help them try to raise awareness of sepsis. We will suspend the meeting for five minutes.