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Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The final issue is maternity. I mentioned it a minute ago. We are looking at prevention. Quite a substantial part of the €3 billion is for cases arising from obstetrics and gynaecology. Is that right?

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What effort is being made to look at a different system for women, given the maternity strategy, women's wishes to give birth at home and so on? There are alternatives to a medical-dominated system which is leading to vast claims. What analysis has been carried out to examine alternative systems?

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Luckily there are two women here from the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I know that. These alternatives have not happened.

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: It has been expressed for a very long time in my lifetime alone. I say that as someone who chose a home birth. I am simply using the example. In my understanding and experience, nobody has ever been sued because of a home birth. It has never given rise to a High Court case. There has been a High Court case querying disciplinary proceedings, but I do not think a midwife has ever been sued...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Yes, and one based on intervention.

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Dr. Henry is right at this point, but this should have been looked at a long time ago. From that small number of home births, nobody has ever been sued. I may be corrected, but I believe nobody has ever sued a midwife in regard to a home birth. There are small numbers, but we have gone in the opposite direction to what is demanded, with all the attendant consequences.

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I was there. It is minimalist and difficult. Does Mr. Breen know more about it?

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is one aspect of it. It is also the case that it was never rolled out. I saw the pilot project in Galway. I will not go into personal details. This is an obvious way to reduce costs, empower women and go back to what should be a normal process, not a medical interventionist one with all the consequential catastrophic claims. That should be looked at as a way of bringing down costs.

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Tá sé thar a bheith deacair bheith foighneach le leibhéal na díospóireachta seo ón Rialtas agus ó Fhianna Fáil agus iad ag caint as dhá thaobh a bhéal. Tá sé thar a bheith deacair. Tá géarchéim tithíochta i gceist agus tá sé thar am aithint a thabhairt don ghéarchéim sin agus céimeanna...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Waiting Times (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons awaiting back payment of illness benefit payments; the number of weeks for which the payments are outstanding; the value of outstanding payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46885/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Housing Assistance Payment Data (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of correspondence requiring them to transfer to HAP from rent supplement; the number of persons whose rent supplement has been consequently terminated and are not in receipt of HAP, leaving them with no financial assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46884/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the level of reported ethnic and linguistic tensions in Cameroon in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46580/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the political and security situation in Cameroon; the representations that have been made to the Cameroon Government on these matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46581/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of support being provided to refugees in Cameroon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46582/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessment that has been made of the circumstances surrounding the recent kidnapping of approximately 80 persons including children from a school in the town of Bamenda, Cameroon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46583/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessment that has been made of the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) in the town of Bamenda, Cameroon on 30 October 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46584/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations made to the Tanzanian Government on the level of the threat to the LGBT community and supporters of opposition parties there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46738/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commission for Public Service Appointments (13 Nov 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of investigations conducted by the Commission for Public Service Appointments regarding the blic recruitment process in the University of Limerick in 2015; the findings of such a report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46982/18]