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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I will suspend the meeting for ten minutes to give people a break.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Colm Burke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: There are a couple of points I want to make. I think it is incredible that up to 250,000 women in this State live with chronic pain and life-altering conditions, yet the understanding of endometriosis is so limited. The witnesses outlined some of the outcomes they hoped would emerge from today's meeting. Certainly, I found it educational myself. I think anyone who is listening at home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Ms McMahon mentioned diagnosis and the lack of information there and the big challenge faced by the cohort. We are unsure whether GPs are appropriately trained and whatever else. It is something that we, as a committee, could follow up on, certainly with Irish College of General Practitioners. On the availability of services, the national endometriosis framework that was launched in March...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I think the fact that the EIA and that patient voice have not been involved in the framework is an oversight. Reference was made to the number of women who travel abroad. Do we know how many women do so? No. That information would help. The recovery time can be up to four weeks. We mentioned women having to travel abroad for health treatment. There is the stress that that puts on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Is there a reluctance on the part of the medical profession in respect of people travelling abroad, or is it just that one cannot get an appointment following surgery or whatever treatment one gets abroad? Is that one of the challenges? Before travelling, what prep work does one need to do? Do one need scans? Do a person need her medical file? I presume it is a huge amount of work to try...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: All of that is needed before travelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Lastly, this is probably a naive question, but does it get better as one gets older or does it get worse? Is there any research in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: As Ms Nic Liam was saying, it can affect every organ in the body.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I greatly appreciate the witnesses sharing their stories. Do any members wish to come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: My final question relates to outcomes from this meeting. There are a number of things we as a committee will do. We tend to hop from one crisis to another in respect of many issues, but we considered which ones we had not covered as a health committee. Members were asked what their priority was and agreed on endometriosis. There are clearly advocates among the committee on the witnesses'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I cannot give that commitment right now but we can certainly discuss it at our next private meeting. This meeting was a priority decided on by members. I think the best way of moving the issue forward is that when we get in the Minister and the departmental officials, we will start asking them questions about it and put on record that we have concerns about it. We will produce a report on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: The association has a website and can be contacted. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank the representatives of Endometriosis Association of Ireland for engaging with the committee on the issue of endometriosis and sharing their personal stories, which we appreciate. They will resonate with people at home in that there is a human element to this and sufferers are not a statistic but citizens of this State. The engagement was very useful and the committee will have to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school (details supplied) is without ASD classes from second class up to sixth class, that the current school building the ASD unit is situated within has been deemed unsuitable by Department inspectors, and that the principal has tried without success to engage with the school capital appraisal section; if support and...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Long-term residential nursing home care is yet another aspect of the health service that we have surrendered to the private sector and it is ordinary people who are suffering the consequences. Increasingly, nursing homes are considering leaving the Fair Deal scheme and we are losing more and more bed capacity as nursing homes close. Some 31 have closed since 2020 with the loss of almost...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Deputy, allow the Minister to reply.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Minister to reply, please.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Seán Crowe: Let the Minister reply.