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- Seanad: Female Genital Mutilation Bill 2010: Second Stage (21 Apr 2010)
Phil Prendergast: When talking about female genital mutilation, FGM, it is important that we recognise there is a clash between culture and medicine. The WHO defines FGM as any procedure involving the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. However, the process of globalisation shows that, in the places where these...
- Seanad: Cancer Awareness: Statements (17 Feb 2010)
Phil Prendergast: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ãine Brady. I also welcome a former colleague, former Senator Kathleen O'Meara, and the team from the Irish Cancer Society who are present. I thank them for the work they do in raising awareness and thank them as well for the statistics brief they provided. As those have been well flagged already, I will not repeat them. In my former work as a...
- Seanad: Health Promotion Priorities: Statements (23 Oct 2008)
Phil Prendergast: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. I will touch on a few points which have not been covered and on ones to which Senator Bacik referred earlier. I raised on the Order of Business this morning my concern about the severe shortage of midwives in all the major maternity hospitals in light of the current staffing restrictions. The leads me, on the issue of health promotion, to...
- Seanad: HSE Child Welfare and Protection Services: Statements (21 May 2008)
Phil Prendergast: I also congratulate the Minister of State and wish him every success in his difficult portfolio. I am sure if there is any help we can give him, we would not be remiss in doing so. The areas of welfare and protection services for children are wide and varied. They range from catering to the very basic needs that must be met for all children to ensuring the health, safety and welfare of...