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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: It is as if there are gates and behind them are lots of pregnant women trying to get through but if we open them, they are just going to run wild. Pregnancy is something that progresses. If a woman is not going to get sorted in her GP's surgery, she is going to go onto aerlingus.comor ryanair.comor wherever. I hate being racist against Irish people but we are trying to get an Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Dr. Boylan touched on the anger women feel when they have a diagnosis in pregnancy. There is no greater pain than such a diagnosis, as he knows. These are babies that are wanted. At 22 weeks into a pregnancy, to be told that is just heartbreaking and for us to sit here and judge those women for what they choose to do with their bodies and their lives is appalling. We were asked to "get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I think they need to spell it out here and not be afraid today to do so. They need to say that this is where we are and any sort of pussyfooting about is going to lead to uncertainty and women's lives are going to be at risk. Spell it out to us; I think we need it in black and white today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Go on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Earlier someone said this was a very bad moment. I think it is a great moment for Ireland, for all the people of Ireland. One of the members spoke of the denial of dignity for a whole section of the community, I believe they were referring to unborn children. Women in Ireland have been denied dignity for years now. I spoke earlier about abstract women, but these are our neighbours, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank all the witnesses for coming in this morning. Does the Minister know the impact of the recent campaign on the promotion of the HPV vaccine? Are there any preliminary data to show whether we have addressed the decline from 87% to 50%? I know the campaign was recent but are there any data to show the plan is working? With regard to primary care centres I heard the Minister speak...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Mr. O'Brien is referring to the cohort who are due to receive the vaccine and that they are perhaps more enthusiastic about it than the previous cohort. Does the HSE have any indication that the people who have not been vaccinated in the past, for whatever reason, are changing their minds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: When would Mr. O'Brien expect to have data? I am not trying to be difficult but I know that when a pharmacist gives the flu vaccine, he or she enters the person's PPS number so that the doctor will know whether it has been given. It is there in a system. I can understand that we need a period of time to collect a data set, but once a period of time has elapsed I cannot see how it would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Surely if somebody did not have the vaccine when she was due to it would be highlighted that she did not have it, and if she got it it would be fairly obvious. I can see how there is an issue with the data for the cohort which is due to receive the vaccine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: When would Mr. O'Brien expect to have that data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I am not being critical. If we have made slight inroads, that is great, but we need to ramp up what we did right. If, however, the activities of the immunisation people in the HSE, the Irish Cancer Society, the Minister and the members of this committee are not having an impact, we need to seriously consider what we are doing. There is no point in waiting two years. That is really my point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I am specifically referring to the catch-up people who did not receive the vaccine in the past. Does the HSE have any plans for another round of distributing information to try to address the issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Is there something in the pipeline within the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I will follow on from Deputy Louise Reilly's point on home care and the fair deal scheme. My colleague, Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked about the reasons for overcrowding. I know that it seems obvious, but is there evidence that the delay in discharging patients due to be discharged to a nursing home, as in normal circumstances they would not be able to return home, is due to families...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Would there be any logic to the equivalent of the fair deal in the home setting kicking in at the point where the medical people say the person in question can now go home? Rather than kicking in when the person walks out the door, maybe it should kick in when he or she is fit to go elsewhere. I wonder whether that is a possible way of trying to address this issue. Mr. O'Brien has said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Has the possibility of the new scheme kicking in before discharge - before the person walks out the door - been explored? I understand that it would seem ridiculous to start tearing down the legislative underpinning of the existing fair deal scheme. Now that a new scheme is being proposed, which I think is a great idea, the Government has an opportunity to provide for it to kick in at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I understand that. Will the Minister of State give me an assurance that he will consider what I have proposed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I understand it is something that has started recently. I was first informed about it in June or July. It appears to be something that is emerging in certain hospitals and is driven by the management of those hospitals. I agree that venesection can be carried out in the primary care setting. That will be great in the future but currently patients are being charged for it in certain...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank Professor O'Keane for coming in today. There are just a couple of things I want to touch on. Professor O'Keane's presentation was very helpful. On this division of mind and body health which Professor O'Keane referred to as dualism, and which she stated today is found by the Citizens' Assembly to be the entirely wrong approach, she quotes a study showing that, according to her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: "Or forced" not "and forced".