Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Anti-Austerity Alliance)
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192. To ask the Minister for Health the opportunities he had to raise the rights of the victims of symphysiotomy during the United Nations Human Rights Council. [10143/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is an interactive process that allows UN member states the opportunity to question the state being reviewed on its human rights record and make recommendations in that regard. At the UPR meeting in Geneva in May, member state delegations did not raise the issue of symphysiotomy. The Tánaiste did not therefore speak on this issue.

Ireland provided an update to the UN on the Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme as part of its national report earlier in the UPR process. The national report was submitted in February 2016 ahead of the review itself in May and is available at the following website address:

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