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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: With regard to regulation and ethical and clinical oversight, for example, if a woman cannot conceive naturally because of underlying health reasons but then becomes pregnant it could have a profound impact on her health, how would the witnesses regulate in that instance? Would they simply depend on the ethical obligations on the clinicians? If such a woman becomes pregnant it could have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Would this legislation as drafted allow for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: The concept of PGD is that, if there is a concern due to a previous pregnancy, testing could be done to eliminate the risk. The obvious assertion by people who oppose assisted human reproduction is that the next step will be genetic assessment, gender selection and all that flows from those. Where is this country in the context of gender selection, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Is Dr. Waterstone in favour of that or should there be gender selection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I have some issues with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Why would security forces do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Is it for military advantage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: For military advantage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: The purpose of this committee is to do that. I assume the Department is watching.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: In view of what we have heard and the fact that we are in a pre-legislative scrutiny phase, what we are trying to achieve is a practical outcome that benefits everybody so perhaps the committee would write to the Department calling for engagement with the witnesses who are before us today, and others, notwithstanding the pre-legislative scrutiny phase. The process could be a simultaneous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Engagement is important. Rather than watching today's proceedings the Department could be talking to the witnesses as well if issues that are raised are of concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Thank you, Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (6 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 23 February 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form. [10682/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (6 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in all public and voluntary acute hospitals at the end of January 2017 or the latest date available; and the number of which have been delayed for zero to ten, ten to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 100, 100 to 200, 200 to 365 and more than 365 days respectively, in tabular form. [10683/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I have. I welcome the witnesses and I thank them for their presentations. The ESRI report indicates that over the next number of years, there will be a dramatic change in the demographics, with the consequences in terms of demands on health services, the need for us to change how we provide health care and with regard to planning. Dr. O'Shea noted we have more people living longer with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Is that screening done by a consultant or can it be done in primary care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: I apologise for cutting in ahead of Deputy Bernard J. Durkan. I must leave the meeting in order to be briefed on a Supreme Court decision which has just been announced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: Regarding the next steps, once the counsellors' and psychotherapists' registration board has been established and its members appointed, the board will be asked to advise the Health and Social Care Professionals Council and the Minister. I suppose it is, in this context, advice. Who is ultimately the person or entity that makes final decisions? Ms Walsh said the board will be asked "to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: He could amend that advice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: These regulations are underpinned by the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005. The new board will meet and make recommendations to the Health and Social Care Professionals Council and the Minister on protected title, qualifications, training programmes and so on. Where people do not comply or remain outside of this process and they continue to advertise on, say, a plaque on a wall...