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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 have one final question.

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: When the National Association of General Practitioners was before the committee last week or the previous week, the issue of referral was raised. We were told the law effectively precludes a doctor from giving the file of a patient to medics in the UK. The professor has experience as a psychiatrist who often deals with people with very complex psychiatric needs. As a professional at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital (25 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I also thank them for their patience and their presentations. I will start with Ms Blackwell. In her role at the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, has she heard of attendees or staff being abused in the street verbally or in any way? I have seen reports of images displayed outside clinics and centres. What do the witnesses think is the purpose of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital (25 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Before the witnesses came in, we heard from a psychiatrist who said it is a case of the earlier the better in terms of a resolution. I do not want to misquote her but my understanding is that prolonging the situation for women seems to be very difficult. In their experience, do the witnesses see lengthy processes involving verification and validation of a claim as having a negative effect...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Termination for Medical Reasons Ireland (25 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank both witnesses for coming in to speak to us today. For me, the focus of this committee is on the dignity of women. We are also focusing on unborn life or the unborn children. Do both witnesses think that the eighth amendment afforded them and their unborn children, now their children who have passed, any dignity? There is a thing when someone is expecting a child - maybe I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Termination for Medical Reasons Ireland (25 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Every couple's experience is unique. It is clear from the many stories we hear that the outcomes are different and there are many different permutations. I hope that next year that the law is changed in order to provide dignified access to medical care in Ireland. The witnesses spoke of people who receive a diagnosis of complications, of fatal foetal abnormalities, a complex blend of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Children's Health Bill 2017: Discussion (25 Oct 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I have a few questions that may not be pertinent to today's discussion. Regarding the naming of the wards, I know the wards in Our Lady's Hospital, Crumlin have religious names. I know because I was on Nazareth ward. Has the hospital group discussed that? What direction is it headed? I do not know if anybody here has actually parked in Tallaght Hospital multi-storey car park. It is a...

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...

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...

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.

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: That is what I take from the information myself, but I would like the witnesses to clarify it if they have the capacity to do so. It would be helpful to the committee to know if one country's limit is 12 weeks, but that it is actually ten. Will the witnesses comment on the balancing of the rights of the woman walking around pregnant and the unborn child? How have other countries dealt with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: It is a pity the people who were quoting the Dr. Ferguson study have left the room. Dr. Ferguson clarified the position on his research on our national broadcaster four years ago. The man who is continually quoting him says the interpretation of Dr. Ferguson's data is that abortion is bad for mental health. Dr. Ferguson stated that he had completed a review of the evidence and his view was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: A point was made earlier about the abortion rate in the UK being four times as high as the Irish rate. Did someone get clarity on that in my absence? I thought we heard earlier today that that there is no such thing as data in areas that have no abortions or where people seek illegal abortions. That was being quoted here but we do not actually know the official rate. It is important to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: There are views from people we have heard from.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: For clarification, I am afraid I may have misheard Deputy McGrath. Did the Deputy say, and maybe I heard it wrong, that seven lives too many were saved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I am not sure that I heard it right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Seven "whats" too many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: To move away from the area of orphan drugs, I have a question that Mr. Flanagan might answer. If Mr. Flanagan was in the role then, he might remember that in 2013 Aspen Pharma significantly increased the price of several drugs. My understanding is that it was almost holding the HSE to ransom. There were long established drugs that would have to have been off patent then, including...