Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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572. To ask the Minister for Health if corrective surgeries or equivalent non-surgical procedures are performed on intersex children in Irish hospitals to make their genitalia more typically male/female; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11225/15]

Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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573. To ask the Minister for Health the number of corrective surgeries or equivalent non-surgical procedures that are performed on intersex children in Irish hospitals each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11226/15]

Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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574. To ask the Minister for Health regarding corrective surgeries or equivalent non-surgical procedures that are performed on intersex children in Irish hospitals, if these procedures are performed with informed parental consent; the criteria that qualifies as informed parental consent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11227/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 572 to 574, inclusive, together.

As these are service matters, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.