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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...

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: Are they going to nursing homes?

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]

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I have two or three very short questions, the first of which is on the opening statement by Ms Anna Cannon. I would like the doctors to comment on it. Ms Cannon's submission states, "The truth is that our girls [most girls, I believe] will still require ongoing and regular pap smear tests, as protection from the HPV vaccine has not been shown to last longer than 8 years." As a non-medical...

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I will be quick. I have a second question and I will skip to the case. I got a text message from a doctor some minutes ago. She said she would not give her daughters the vaccine. I want to ask the doctors before the committee a question. Perhaps it is a little out of order, but this is about what we do with our own children. Would the doctors present give their daughters the vaccine?

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: When can we get our answers?

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Are you going to stop the meeting?

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I asked a question about the regular Pap smear test. It states in one of the reports that the HPV vaccine has not been shown to last longer than eight years. Can Dr. Connolly comment on that? I also asked - it is personal, but still - whether he would give it to his daughter.

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

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I may be wrong, but I thought cervical cancer presented more in older women.

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.

Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Dec 2015)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I welcome the Government's recent announcement of its package of rent stability measures. These are badly needed and will go some way towards providing certainty for both tenants and landlords. The situation could no longer continue whereby tenants were arriving home to find notification letters stating their rent was increasing by 20% or 30% with immediate effect. I have heard of cases...