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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Do we need to do more work on that issue? Mr. de Búrca seems to be happy with the projects being delivered and getting value. What is the Department's approach to try to get additional funding for projects where it sees major progress being made?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: That is being reviewed constantly, I imagine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Is Mr. de Búrca satisfied we have sufficient structures in place?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the results of the focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines relating to minimum setback distance for wind turbines from homes and residential areas will be released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34696/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank our witnesses for their presentations here. It has been a very difficult time for everyone involved. I wish to address the issue of treatment abroad. There is an issue with regard to treatment abroad and the cross-border healthcare directive. I was involved at European Union level with the cross-border healthcare directive. My understanding of the cross-border healthcare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: There is quite a clear directive providing for when there is lack of access or, alternatively, undue delay. The undue delay mechanism could be used in relation to use of the cross-border directive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: My view on this issue is that the cross-border directive was specifically designed at a European level. They started it in 2007 and it went through and came into Ireland in 2012 eventually. It was transposed into Irish law. It is an effective way of using that mechanism. If the funding is refused, I believe it is a judicial review issue to get an overall decision on that. That is one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: We have approximately 160 obstetricians and gynaecologists in this country. Surely it is an easy mechanism to get information out to them and that they would be aware of these special clinics. Is Ms Martin saying that women are not being referred, either by GPs or by consultants under whose care they are, to these specialist clinics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Does Ms Martin accept that if we are talking about a figure of 750 who had this treatment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: How many did Ms Martin say? Apologies, I did not get the figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: In relation to the collection of data, as I said, there are approximately 160 or 170 obstetricians and gynaecologists in the country. Surely the number of obstetricians carrying out this procedure would have been quite small in real terms. Would it have been 15 or 20?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Surely it would be easy to go through their records to identify the real numbers we are talking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: What is the mechanism? Why is that not being dealt with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: Ms Martin is saying that there were only 19 consultants dealing with this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: That is what I am saying. Nineteen put it in and we are talking about a period from 2000 to 2018.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: We are talking about 20 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: In real terms, if one is talking about 19 consultants over that period, and maybe two or three would have retired halfway through, surely we could get all of those and that information as regards identifying the real numbers. The other issue is about making sure that every one of those patients is made aware of the follow-up care that is now available in these clinics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)

Colm Burke: I thank Ms Martin.