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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. To follow on from some of Deputy Daly's questions on contraception, I hope the witnesses will correct me if I am wrong but I believe they are saying that greater access to contraception leads to fewer unwanted pregnancies. Can we sum it up like that? I have tabled a parliamentary question on today's Order Paper, No. 76, which basically asks the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Grand. We will check the Official Report. I think it was Deputy Rabbitte who asked about illegal abortions and Dr. Henchion spoke about online pills. Have we any evidence that illegal surgical abortions are taking place in Ireland? My mother tells me that back-street surgical abortions were available here in the 1970s.. Has Dr. Henchion come across evidence of this? I do not believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Does anybody intervene, apart from in the context of the conversation between the woman and her doctor to stop her having that procedure? Dr. Henchion mentioned not having enough children. Who deems that an appropriate question to ask a woman of sound mind?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I apologise if the following has been asked in my absence. What is the policy in the crisis agencies funded by the HSE when a woman tells a counsellor that she has taken illegal abortion pills obtained online? Are women being advised to say nothing or that they had a miscarriage or to tell their doctors the truth? I spoke to a girl this morning who travelled to Liverpool last year to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Was that 18%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Which is one fifth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: That is fairly high, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: That is one fifth of the cohort that does not have a medical card finding it an issue. I see that as high, not low. I suppose it depends what way one looks at it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I was not suggesting that they thought it was inappropriate. I was really making the point that I believe people need to be made aware that as well as farming out our problem to other countries, we are sending information over for our women to get over there.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Data (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under various schemes in receipt of contraceptives over the past ten years, in tabular form; the cost to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47983/17]

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: We are elected-----

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: We have cameras here and can see the Deputy sneering.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Some in this House might feel it is okay to proceed with this measure, but I believe I have a responsibility, as an elected Member, to proceed with caution. There are other Members of the House who are very well qualified in this field, medical professionals in all parties, who know that the Bill is flawed and would call out the Deputies here as being populist on the issue.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I am all for having a new Bill. I am all for working through the issue, but the Bill put before the Joint Committee on Health was so deeply flawed. It is very disturbing that we would set a precedent by ignoring the volume of legal advice we have received and that we would do anything in this House to disrupt those mechanisms that have been put in place to safeguard public health. I am...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I recognise that cannabis has been used for medicinal effects for centuries. I fully accept and appreciate that cannabis has properties which some people find to be effective in the treatment of many conditions, including pain, nausea and seizures. There is a shortage of peer reviewed evidence for the efficacy and safety of cannabinoid treatment. Peer reviewed evidence is usually the...

Topical Issue Debate: Infectious Diseases (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Minister of State. In the wider European context and given the movement of people, there have been 44 deaths owing to measles in EU countries since 2016. Disease does not know borders, so I would be anxious for the Department to examine countries where there have been increased rates of measles and consider how to control the burden of disease in the context of people from...

Topical Issue Debate: Infectious Diseases (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: This issue concerns the outbreak of measles in north County Dublin in the last few weeks. It has happened a few times in recent years and is an issue I feel strongly about as a pharmacist. From a public health policy point of view, vaccination would be considered, after water sanitation, as the single greatest success story in terms of health worldwide in modern times. The concern here is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I have just a few quick questions. I apologise if I am repeating anything which was asked recently, I was in the Chamber for another matter. Is there any other country in Europe where there is this constant argument or discussion about the life of the live mother, who is walking around pregnant, being given equal weighting to the life of the unborn child? It seems to be a constant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: What I am really getting at it is whether a ten week limit could actually be a 12 week limit, depending on where one begins to count from. Does Ms Hoctor understand what I am saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: It would be helpful so that we would not have to deal with so many starting points.