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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: How can one prove it? If one is going to give it to girls - the witnesses spoke of the experience in Australia in 2008, which is seven years ago - whereas cervical cancer presents in women in their 40s, 50s and 60s, how can Dr. Connolly be so sure? He is talking about genital warts and so on. How can he be so sure that it will have an impact on women in their 50s and 60s? Maybe he needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Would Dr. Connolly talk about boys again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: We are hearing different views. I ask the Department of Health to take on board the points the parents have made and the request that the leaflet be improved in order that parents will have more information.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: 506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided to primary and post-primary schools for capital works, by county, from March 2011 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43824/15]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Will the Minister clarify why there is an increase in the miscellaneous legal fees? The Minister said there was an overall increase of 310%. Could the Minister say if the HSE's own legal service could be better utilised to try to reduce the fees paid to other legal firms?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Is that the HSE's own legal teams or outside legal services?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: We have seen where there is an acceptance and an apology much earlier it is better than waiting ten years and dragging good people through the courts.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: This is not a criticism in any way of the Minister, but if a child is born with a disability and needs help it is in the early ages that the people, the parents and family need the money. They do not need to be dragged through the courts fighting day in and day out. These parents have appeared before this committee and members have heard terrible cases. Parents need that money early on to...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am not sure if BreastCheck comes within subhead J1 or subhead I1.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Is BreastCheck a primary care service?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: BreastCheck was to be extended to include women from 65 to 69 years of age. Is there provision for it in the Supplementary Estimates? We have done cochlear implants in Beaumont Hospital very well in the past two or three years.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Good. It is a very good, top-class service.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: There is a Senator saying it is not happening.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: What I am hearing about it is that private owners, including nursing home owners, have more exacting considerations from HIQA. They feel they have to do it whereas public facilities seem to get away with it. As such, it costs them more. For example, private nursing homes say to me they are afraid that if they do not have the right nursing staff, they will be closed down. If HIQA goes into...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I want to ask about that. I congratulate the Minister on the new service he has introduced for diabetics. I also congratulate him on the long-term illness service which is a very good one. People are very grateful for it. A local issue involves dementia and the pilot Genio projects on the latter in different areas. The pilot has worked very well in Stillorgan and Blackrock. I ask the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Yes. It came via Chuck Feeney's Atlantic Philanthropies. It is great. The more research and health we have for people with dementia, the better. We know the figures will increase because we have an aging population. I would like to ask the Minister a final question. The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Reilly, announced in the budget-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: That is why I am asking this question. Will the money that is to be made available for children to get speech therapy through schools come through the Department of Health, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs or the Department of Education and Skills? It was announced in the budget. If the Minister does not know the answer, I suppose he can write to me.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I would like to put one more question to the Minister in his capacity as a Minister and as a doctor. I hear criticism of the decision to give a doctor-only card to children under the age of six. I ask the Minister to spell out the reasons for that decision to those who are questioning it. Why are we thinking of extending the card to those between the ages of six and 12? I understand that...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am going back to the private nursing homes. They tell me they are finding it really difficult to source nurses. Even when they do, and they come through the long registration system for nurses, they seem to be poached nearly immediately into the general hospitals. I have heard the HSE is nearly parked outside.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I am sure it is exaggerated a bit, but they are telling me they have serious problems. We had the nursing people in here. Is that improving? For example, St. Joseph's in Shankill is a dementia centre and there was a fundraiser for it at the weekend. Again, really good work is done there, but they are finding it very hard to keep nurses. Finally, two separate sets of four parents who...