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

Kate O'Connell: Or we can look back on the Official Report.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I recognise that cannabis has been used for medicinal effects for centuries. I fully accept and appreciate that cannabis has properties which some people find to be effective in the treatment of many conditions, including pain, nausea and seizures. There is a shortage of peer reviewed evidence for the efficacy and safety of cannabinoid treatment. Peer reviewed evidence is usually the...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: We are elected-----

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: We have cameras here and can see the Deputy sneering.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Some in this House might feel it is okay to proceed with this measure, but I believe I have a responsibility, as an elected Member, to proceed with caution. There are other Members of the House who are very well qualified in this field, medical professionals in all parties, who know that the Bill is flawed and would call out the Deputies here as being populist on the issue.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I am all for having a new Bill. I am all for working through the issue, but the Bill put before the Joint Committee on Health was so deeply flawed. It is very disturbing that we would set a precedent by ignoring the volume of legal advice we have received and that we would do anything in this House to disrupt those mechanisms that have been put in place to safeguard public health. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Data (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under various schemes in receipt of contraceptives over the past ten years, in tabular form; the cost to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47983/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. To follow on from some of Deputy Daly's questions on contraception, I hope the witnesses will correct me if I am wrong but I believe they are saying that greater access to contraception leads to fewer unwanted pregnancies. Can we sum it up like that? I have tabled a parliamentary question on today's Order Paper, No. 76, which basically asks the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Grand. We will check the Official Report. I think it was Deputy Rabbitte who asked about illegal abortions and Dr. Henchion spoke about online pills. Have we any evidence that illegal surgical abortions are taking place in Ireland? My mother tells me that back-street surgical abortions were available here in the 1970s.. Has Dr. Henchion come across evidence of this? I do not believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Does anybody intervene, apart from in the context of the conversation between the woman and her doctor to stop her having that procedure? Dr. Henchion mentioned not having enough children. Who deems that an appropriate question to ask a woman of sound mind?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I apologise if the following has been asked in my absence. What is the policy in the crisis agencies funded by the HSE when a woman tells a counsellor that she has taken illegal abortion pills obtained online? Are women being advised to say nothing or that they had a miscarriage or to tell their doctors the truth? I spoke to a girl this morning who travelled to Liverpool last year to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Was that 18%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Which is one fifth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: That is fairly high, is it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: That is one fifth of the cohort that does not have a medical card finding it an issue. I see that as high, not low. I suppose it depends what way one looks at it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I was not suggesting that they thought it was inappropriate. I was really making the point that I believe people need to be made aware that as well as farming out our problem to other countries, we are sending information over for our women to get over there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I apologise that I had to leave the room for something. If I repeat something that was asked already, ignore me. I can look back at the record. Deputy Durkan touched on the rate of termination in the UK. I was sourcing some documents about the rate in the Netherlands which used to be the lowest but which has risen slightly in recent years. Dr. Lohr quoted a figure of 16 per 1,000 and I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Is the decision made by one doctor in that case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: In the case of a combination of serious birth defects, would the decision be made by one doctor or two doctors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: What recourse does the patient have? There is a purpose to my questions. I am trying to tease out where we are going as a committee, rather than being difficult. Where one doctor takes the view that a combination of conditions will be fatal and a second doctor disagrees with that, what happens? In other words, what happens when there is a difference in medical opinion?