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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. As of the 1st...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I did not say that.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Am I entitled to speak for one minute, a Cheann Comhairle?

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Eireann" and substitute the following: "recognises that: — endometriosis is one of the most common gynaecological conditions in Ireland and approximately one in ten women may have endometriosis; — there is a wide range of symptoms associated with this condition and the burden of disease varies from person to...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: However, I cannot allow clinical decisions to be on the record of the Dáil.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do not wish to speak across the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, whose voice is just as important as anybody else's in the House. I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle's discretion.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am trying to deal with this issue. Forgive me.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----to reduce the amount of travel and make sure there is an opportunity to get more regional care. In the countermotion we try to set out what has happened, what has yet to happen and to recognise that there are different choices. The point was raised about private treatment and choices. Women are entitled to choose. I want them to be treated within the public system.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I want women to be treated within the public system. I want to make sure that women have every option to be treated in the public system.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: However, where a woman has gone abroad, she must be supported when she comes back to Ireland. We have set that out in the countermotion.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is an outrageous statement to make in the House. That is a term used in domestic abuse situations.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is by a woman.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputies for the work they are doing with and on behalf of women. It is wonderful to see so many different parties and so many different voices, male and female, articulate the female health experience. Every single person knows that it has been overlooked. Every single person knows that experience of telling a story and not being listened to or believed. I completely respect...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As I said, I am not here to politicise anything. I do not critique the Deputy-----

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Would the Deputy like-----

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will address the women in the House.

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What is important for us is actually making progress on endometriosis and there is some progress taking place. The first major difference we have, and this does not account for the many years of underinvestment in and under-recognition of women's health, is that we have a dedicated women and infants health programme. That has made some difference to how maternity services are conceived. We...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is so wrong of the Deputy.

Data Protection Act 2018 under (Section 60(6)) and (Section 51(3)) Regulations 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Inquiry into the Licensing and Use of Sodium Valproate in Women of Child-Bearing Potential in the State) Regulations 2025, and Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 51(3)) (Inquiry into the Licensing and Use of Sodium Valproate in Women of Child-Bearing Potential in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Hear, hear.