Seanad debates

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Commencement Matters

Medicinal Products Regulation

10:30 am

Photo of Rose Conway WalshRose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms Karen Keely, chairperson of the Organisation for Anticonvulsant Syndrome, Ms Valerie Brenann, Ms Danielle Delaney, Ms Beverley Dunne and others to the Gallery. I thank them for all the work they have done on that.

The money is not there. The letter has not been sent out to the GPs. The Minister of State has not answered why that letter was not sent out. Medication is still being given in plastic bags. We need an independent investigation. What he said is skirting around the problem. Will the Minister of State ask the Minister for Health for an independent investigation? Without it, the letters to the GPs or the funding for the services, it will not happen. It is not happening on the ground in the manner the Minister of State outlined. I will speak to him further outside the House because we have limited time. What is purported to be happening is not happening. It needs to be done immediately. In the meantime, there are parents watching their children, and they do not get the services or supports. Every day that goes by without the letter going to the GPs, more women and children are at further risk. This is a serious problem that will not go away, and we cannot keep kicking the can down the road.

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