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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (23 Jun 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: Providing appropriate care sensitively for children who may not live for long after birth is particularly important given that parents and families only have a short precious amount of time with their baby. The Palliative Care For Children with Life-Limiting Conditions in Ireland - A National Policy,was published by my Department in March 2010. The policy places significant emphasis on...

Topical Issue Debate: HSE Investigations (13 May 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I share the Deputy's frustration over the inability to publish certain reports. We must find a way of on the one hand allowing people named in reports to have due process if that is what they want but on the other hand being able to publish the relevant information in order for us to take the necessary steps. The non-publication of the report does not mean that the necessary steps cannot be...

Topical Issue Debate: HSE Investigations (13 May 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I should clarify for the House that the Minister for Health is not present to deal with this Topical Issue because he is meeting the families involved in the aforementioned tragedies at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise. I am sure the Deputy will agree that the Minister is right to meet them. I thank the Deputy for raising this issue and affording me the opportunity to offer my...

Seanad: Standards of Care in Residential Care Homes: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: In terms of those who stood and watched, what the Senator spoke about used to be called sins of omission. That is part and parcel of the new document on protecting vulnerable adults. There is a reference in that document to omission and being witness to something that is wrong. In response to Senator Mullins, I believe we have learned something. I have learned something from this entire...

Topical Issues Debate: Maternity Services (11 Mar 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. As parents ourselves we are very conscious that delivering a baby is the most vulnerable time in any woman's life and the most anxious time for any family. I refer to recent incidents which took place in Portlaoise and we should also extend our sympathies to people who have lost much longed-for babies. We all feel that loss. With regard to the...

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: There were public allegations of children being neglected in Bethany in 1939 and 1940. These were investigated and rejected by the health authorities. There were suggestions that some of the complaints were motivated by sectarian concerns but it is not possible to make any determination from this distance as to whether the investigation was adequate. It is very difficult to put these...

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I acknowledge the hardships faced by those born in Bethany Home. There is no doubt they faced hardships. Up to the 1950s, poverty and the diseases associated with poverty were widespread in Ireland. Infant mortality rates were high. Children were not cherished the way they are today and were often seen as a burden or a form of cheap labour. There was no provision for legal adoption....

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: When Deputies start to talk here about legal definitions and about whether the evidence was available at the time, they should remember that they are talking about a woman who is pregnant and that pregnancy could be a threat to her life. I have said to Deputy Clare Daly on another occasion that we should start to look seriously at the issue of fatal foetal abnormality and the threat to the...

Seanad: Symphysiotomy: Statements (16 May 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank those Senators who called for this debate which deals with a subject that is not only emotive but very pertinent and which needs to be dealt with. I will start by explaining precisely what symphysiotomy is, to give some context about its use as a medical procedure and specifically its use in Ireland. Symphysiotomy is a medical procedure that was primarily used before the advent of...

Private Members' Business: Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: ...add my voice to that of my colleague, the Minister for Health, in stating the Government wishes to ensure that pregnant women whose lives are at risk can access appropriate medical treatment in Ireland, including lawful termination of pregnancy. As Members are aware, termination of pregnancy already is lawful in Ireland when it meets the criteria laid out in the X case ruling, that is, if...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (15 Mar 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputies who raised the issue in the first instance and I thank those who spoke. All of those who spoke have conveyed not only a great degree of sympathy but also the degree of urgency with which this issue must be addressed. I commend the brave women who have spoken out. I have no wish to dismiss men's experience, which is considerable, but as a woman it is very difficult to...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: ...Medical Practitioners Acts to ensure all medical practitioners will have indemnity insurance. That is long overdue. I take Deputy Ó Caoláin's point about general practitioners, gynaecologists and other health professionals not being required to have insurance. The Minister's proposal will introduce such a requirement. I believe being pregnant and having a baby is not a medical...

Patient Safety: Motion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank Deputy James Reilly for tabling the motion. Every second week, the health service seems to be the subject of a Private Members' motion, other type of motion or debate. I am not certain how long we can continue on this track. I am not certain people will stand for the type of rollover crises we experience in the health service virtually on a weekly basis. Given that the people who...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: .... That is something that could be done immediately. It struck me that the people who have been to the forefront of bringing this horror to our attention call this the Irish holocaust. I sat and thought about that for a while. Just after the Second World War a study was done in Germany on how people could allow such awful things to happen to their neighbours - the people they worked...

Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: I wish to share time with Deputies Sherlock and Ó Caoláin. In listening to this debate, in particular to the contributions of the Minister and the three previous speakers, one would imagine that we were introducing for the first time new limits for people aged over 70 years. That is not the case. We are withdrawing the medical card from 20,000 people aged 70 years and over. That is not a...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Nov 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: ...That is why I am such a great believer in whistleblowers' charters, which we should have in all aspects of life. I could not believe what happened. I look at people doing jobs. With experience, and having got to know people, one knows whether they are good and have the requisite interest. My instinct is not to trust a person on the first meeting. Perhaps that is a bad way to be, but it...

Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: I withdraw that. We must seriously examine how pregnancy is managed, and Judge Harding Clark referred to this. Unless one is very determined and makes out a plan before approaching the gynaecologist or hospital, somebody else takes over. That person specifies the date on which one attends hospital regardless of one's delivery date, and induces labour regardless of one's wishes. Due to the...