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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I second what Senator Feighan said. I live on the other side of the constituency wall in Portumna. I was in contact with some psychiatric nurses who felt very aggrieved by what happened with management staff on the Roscommon side.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Certain dynamics might have changed from this morning's meeting. It will be a question of assessing the responses we get back in order to determine our baseline.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (30 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 206. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her Department's capital expenditure in each year since 2011. [51365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Expenditure (30 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 207. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount her Department has spent on non-contact hours, by service type in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [51366/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witness for his presentation. Most of the questions I intended to put have already been asked. On page 6 of his statement, Mr. Thompson mentioned that he would expect the number of requests for termination of pregnancies in cases of diagnosis of Down's syndrome to be high and that that would not be representative of the population. What does he mean by that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: No. I am afraid Mr. Thompson lost me there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Therefore page 6 shows the people who have come in and looked for the testing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Is that figure reflective of the affected pregnancies, the 76?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: All right. Of them, 44 chose medical terminations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: There were six spontaneous terminations, miscarriages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Absolutely. There were 13 confirmed live births.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I just wanted to understand how that was worked out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. The witnesses are before us today in the context of the Citizens' Assembly recommendations and the recommendations which we, as a committee, will make to the Dáil in regard to repeal of the eighth amendment. Based on all that I have heard today, I am very concerned. First, am I correct that the role of the officials here today is that of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Okay. I have found everything said today extremely good from a parent's point of view and a child's point of view. That said, I have some concerns. Who drafts the curriculum for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM? We are looking at changing how we do business in Ireland if this referendum is to be put to the people, but from an educational point of view are our young...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I have waited weeks for this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: The reason I asked that question was because Dr. Geoffrey Shannon came before the Oireachtas children's committee recently. The discussion was on cyber safety but it was also to do with children not understanding the roles and responsibilities around consent. I did not find the presentation very clear on that. I saw it for third level students. I would not expect to see it for primary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are eligible for general practitioner visit cards. [50983/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 280. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are eligible for medical cards. [50984/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 445. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the statutory basis for the national standards in foster care. [50776/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (29 Nov 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 447. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount that her Department has allocated to the learner fund each year since 2013; and the amount her Department has allocated for 2018. [50965/17]