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# Health Committee

Last week
28th May 2023 - 3rd June 2023
# Abortion
Taoiseach suggests Dáil vote for PBP abortion bill could speed up legal changes
The bill, which seeks wider access to abortion services, passed second stage in the Dáil last night.
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# Abortion Services
People Before Profit bill calling for wider access to abortion passes Dáil second stage
The bill is seeking to abolish the mandatory three-day waiting period for an abortion.
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This year
2023
# Abortion
'Enormous burden': Labour call for removal of wait period for abortion care
Labour Senator Annie Hoey said women are “more than able” to make their own decisions around abortion.
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Mar 29th 2023, 2:12 PM
# Health Committee
High demand for ambulances in Dublin outstripping capacity of fire service, TDs to hear
Dublin Fire Brigade current provide ambulance services in the capital.
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Feb 21st 2023, 7:43 PM
# Robert Watt
Nursing home charges: Legal strategy was 'never challenged' by politicians, says top civil servant
Many medical card holders who were in long-term care between 1976 to 2005 had to pay when it should have been free.
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Feb 15th 2023, 12:43 PM
# Assaults
At least 10 assaults on Irish hospital staff each day, committee to be told
The Oireachtas Health Committee will focus on assaults and attacks on healthcare workers.
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Feb 8th 2023, 7:00 AM
Last year
2022
# Health Committee
National Children's Hospital will cost more than €1.43 billion by 2024 completion date
The final cost may not be known until years after construction ends due to legal claims.
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Oct 5th 2022, 1:20 PM
# Health Committee
Dáil committee hears women with vaginal mesh complications were told pain was 'in their minds'
Thousands of women across the world who had these surgeries have suffered life-changing complications.
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Jun 29th 2022, 2:09 PM
# Health Committee
'You lost the run of yourself': Robert Watt grilled by TDs over Holohan secondment to Trinity
The Secretary General of the Department of Health appeared before the Oireachtas Health Committee this morning.
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May 4th 2022, 12:33 PM
# Health Committee
‘Threat of criminal sanctions’ hangs over medical abortion providers, committee hears
Ireland’s abortion law makes anyone who aids or abets abortion outside the specific terms of the Act liable for criminal prosecution.
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Apr 27th 2022, 1:20 PM
# New Job
Dr Tony Holohan rules out return as Chief Medical Officer after his new role in Trinity College
Controversy has surrounded the salary payment of for his new professorship in Trinity College.
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Apr 7th 2022, 1:45 PM
# Health Committee
Nurses and midwives reporting exhaustion due to huge patient numbers, INMO to tell committee
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health is set to sit later today.
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Mar 9th 2022, 6:00 AM
# sláintecare
Deferrals caused by Covid will increase hospital waiting lists this year, says Health Sec Gen
Over 1.5 million people will be added to the waiting lists this year, the Oireachtas Health Committee will hear.
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Feb 16th 2022, 6:45 AM
# Health
Ireland's Covid position improving but global risk remains high, CMO tells Oireachtas Committee
Senior NPHET members fielded questions from TDs and senators at a Health Committee meeting today.
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Feb 2nd 2022, 12:00 PM
# Health Committee
Over 1,600 GPs need to be hired before 2028 as concern grows over shortage
There are currently an average of 0.69 GPs per 1,000 population, when it should be between 1.02 and 1.1.
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Jan 26th 2022, 11:59 AM
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# Healthcare
Three years into new abortion laws, Stephen Donnelly says 'ease of access' has not been achieved
The Health Minister has been answering questions in the Oireachtas Health Committee.
An independent chair to lead a review into abortion laws has not yet been named.
The terms of reference for the review have been criticised for being too narrow.
The minister said today there has been a "significant reduction" in people travelling to the UK for terminations.
GP: My patients do not need to see your placards with your value judgements
Three years after the referendum vote, just one in 10 GPs are offering abortion services
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Dec 8th 2021, 4:30 PM
# Health Committee
People asked not to contact Digital Covid Cert helpline unless travelling within next 10 days
Over 34,000 calls were made to the new Digital Covid Certificate helpline yesterday alone.
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Jul 21st 2021, 12:04 PM
# maternity restrictions
Four maternity units not allowing partners attend emergency pregnancy cases
“There has been a real issue there, it is arguably the most important time,” Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said.
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Jul 14th 2021, 7:05 PM
# health minister
Stephen Donnelly: 'Large majority of 85s and over' will have received first Covid vaccine dose by Sunday
Stephen Donnelly is appearing before the Oireachtas Health Committee to answer questions from TDs.
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Mar 2nd 2021, 5:06 PM
# CervicalCheck
Issues over review of smear slides were ignored, says CervicalCheck campaigner Lorraine Walsh
Walsh stepped away from her role at the CervicalCheck patient steering committee in October.
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Dec 17th 2019, 9:12 PM
# dental health
Dentists say HPV vaccine is a 'no brainer' as cases of head, neck and mouth cancer on the rise
Concerns were also raised about the overuse of antibiotics on children waiting for dental treatment .
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May 16th 2019, 6:05 AM
# Children's Hospital
'It's so badly needed': Harris defends development of children's hospital despite rising costs
Minister for Health Simon Harris appeared before the Health Committee this afternoon.
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Jan 29th 2019, 4:27 PM
# catastrophic overspend
No one held accountable as children's hospital board says it would do the same again despite cost overruns
The final project cost is €1.4 billion – €450 million higher than the 2017 figure.
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Jan 16th 2019, 2:48 PM
# Health Committee
Harris says abortion legislation doesn't mention the word 'abortion' for legal reasons
The Health Minister also said he wants the Bill to be inclusive of members of the trans community.
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Nov 6th 2018, 2:06 PM
# Abortion legislation
TDs want women seeking abortions to be offered ultrasound imaging and heartbeat recording
A number of TDs have put down amendments ahead of the three-day discussion of the proposed abortion legislation next week.
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Nov 3rd 2018, 7:15 AM
# Abortion legislation
Nine TDs want law to ensure aborted foetuses are buried or cremated
A number of TDs have put down amendments ahead of the three-day discussion of the proposed abortion legislation next week.
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Nov 2nd 2018, 12:52 PM
# cancer screening
CervicalCheck: Report author says it's 'likely' that more women are affected
Dr Gabriel Scally told an Oireachtas Committee that an initial review to identify women involved was flawed.
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Oct 10th 2018, 7:11 PM
# terminations
TDs considering change of plan for proposed three-day wait period for abortions
Dr Peter Boylan told an Oireachtas Committee that there is ‘no evidence’ for the wait time.
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Sep 19th 2018, 3:39 PM
# communication breakdown
Cervical Check scandal: Acting HSE boss says sorry for 'confusion and alarm'
John Connaghan said women in Ireland had been “understandably frightened and concerned” by what they had read and heard.
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May 16th 2018, 12:56 PM
# Public Safety
Bill to legalise medicinal cannabis shouldn't be passed - health committee
Health committee member Kate O’Connell said that an opportunity was lost to make cannabis a medical product.
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Jul 12th 2017, 1:32 PM
# Homelessness
Young midlands woman 'would not be dead' if local drug treatment was available
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health was told today there is an urgent need for the link between ill health and homelessness to be recognised.
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Jul 5th 2017, 10:00 PM
# recommendation
'Medicinal cannabis could be made free of charge'
The Oireachtas Health Committee has made several recommendations in its report on medicinal cannabis.
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Jan 26th 2017, 3:05 PM
# HPV
'I am not anti-vaccine, but 14-year girls don't lie en masse': Senator pushes for debate on HPV vaccine
Gerard Craughwell said he would like medical experts as well as parents concerned about their daughters to attend.
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Dec 10th 2016, 8:15 AM
# supervised injecting centres
'People die in toilets, people die in urine-soaked stairwells'
An Oireachtas Health Committee is hearing submissions in relation to medically supervised injecting centres.
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Nov 30th 2016, 3:23 PM
# Suicide
WATCH: Bressie gives impassioned speech about the 'epidemic of this generation'
“We simply cannot ignore this anymore. We have to be honest and ask ourselves, ‘Truly are we doing enough?’”
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Jan 21st 2016, 3:40 PM
# stop the stigma
Irish dentists refusing to treat HIV positive patients 'adds to stigma'
The “worrying” levels of HIV diagnoses have been discussed at the Oireachtas Health Committee. There are set to be more cases of HIV in Ireland in 2015 than in any other year.
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Dec 2nd 2015, 6:05 AM
# Man overboard
Rebel TD kicked off committee after just ONE day
Michael McNamara’s not having a great week.
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May 29th 2015, 11:40 AM
# Portlaoise
Bereaved parents: 'It needs to stop now, enough pain and enough hurt has been caused'
Calls have been made for HSE Chief Tony O’Brien to resign.
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May 19th 2015, 5:50 PM
# everything is spinning
Alcohol companies may have learned some lessons from the fight against Big Tobacco
A health committee was looking at the government’s proposed new alcohol laws today.
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Mar 24th 2015, 6:28 PM
# rare diseases
'I know the current system doesn't work, I've buried two children'
Both of Tony and Mary Heffernan’s children died at the age of 5.
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Feb 26th 2015, 5:30 PM
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