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# health-committee - Tuesday 17 December, 2019
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.
# health-committee - Thursday 16 May, 2019
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 .
# health-committee - Tuesday 29 January, 2019
'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.
# health-committee - Wednesday 16 January, 2019
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.
# health-committee - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
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.
# health-committee - Saturday 3 November, 2018
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.
# health-committee - Friday 2 November, 2018
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.
# health-committee - Wednesday 10 October, 2018
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.
# health-committee - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
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.
# health-committee - Wednesday 16 May, 2018
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.
# health-committee - Wednesday 12 July, 2017
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.
# health-committee - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
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.
# health-committee - Thursday 26 January, 2017
'Medicinal cannabis could be made free of charge'
The Oireachtas Health Committee has made several recommendations in its report on medicinal cannabis.
# health-committee - Saturday 10 December, 2016
'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.
# health-committee - Wednesday 30 November, 2016
'People die in toilets, people die in urine-soaked stairwells'
An Oireachtas Health Committee is hearing submissions in relation to medically supervised injecting centres.
# health-committee - Thursday 21 January, 2016
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?’”
# health-committee - Wednesday 2 December, 2015
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.
# health-committee - Friday 29 May, 2015
Rebel TD kicked off committee after just ONE day
Michael McNamara’s not having a great week.
# health-committee - Tuesday 19 May, 2015
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.
# health-committee - Tuesday 24 March, 2015
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.
# health-committee - Thursday 26 February, 2015
'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.
# health-committee - Thursday 18 December, 2014
Unregulated plastic surgery procedures offered to 15 year olds
The Oireachtas Health Committee has been told the industry is largely unregulated here.
# health-committee - Thursday 16 October, 2014
Ireland might see 'a few cases' of Ebola. So, how will it cope?
It won’t be a Hollywood apocalypse, politicians heard today.
# health-committee - Tuesday 15 July, 2014
'It is the right of every person to die in comfort and dignity'
The Health and Children Committee launched a report on end-of-life care based on submissions from stakeholders, experts and the public.
# health-committee - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
Complaints to Children's Ombudsman have increased by 15% since 2010
One particular investigation showed that a child had been moved to 11 different residencies in 4 months.
# health-committee - Friday 6 June, 2014
'Totally unacceptable': Concern that PAC has monopoly on probe into spending of €3.25bn
The Oireachtas Health Committee is seeking to change the rules that currently prevent any other Oireachtas committee from investigating matters that are already being probed by the powerful Public Accounts Committee.
# health-committee - Thursday 15 May, 2014
Politicians head on day trip to find out "first hand" what's going on with medical cards
The group of TDs will travel to north Dublin to visit the HSE’s medical card centre.
# health-committee - Thursday 3 April, 2014
Government accused of targeting people with Down Syndrome in medical card removal
The issues were discussed at a Health Committee this morning.
# health-committee - Wednesday 22 January, 2014
‘Liberals don’t like my thinking’: TD claims he was ousted over abortion views
Mattie McGrath has been removed from two Oireachtas committees by the Dáil Technical Group.
# health-committee - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
James Reilly to face Health Committee today
The Health Minister will be questioned on the HSE service plan, which details how the executive will cut €619 million next year.
# health-committee - Thursday 28 November, 2013
Health insurance bosses stress the need to attract young people to the market
Speaking before the Oireachtas committee today, one stressed that proposed legislation won’t cause an increase in premiums.
# health-committee - Friday 26 July, 2013
Reilly working towards 'smoke-free' Ireland by 2025
The Health Minister’s vowing to continue his war on smoking – and says cigarettes are the only freely available product he knows of that can kill the user.
# health-committee - Wednesday 3 July, 2013
TDs vote against extending abortion bill to include inevitable miscarriages
The sub-committee on health is discussing changes to the Bill, which was passed at the second stage in the Dáil last night.
Abortions in cases of suicide ideation can 'create more problems'
The nine-member sub-committee will today deal with the sections of the proposed legislation on suicide ideation.
# health-committee - Tuesday 2 July, 2013
Abortion bill passes first Dáil vote, moves to committee stage
The Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill has passed the second stage of the Dáil this evening with cross-party support but also cross-party opposition.
# health-committee - Sunday 16 June, 2013
Reilly concedes that abortion laws will mean more babies 'suffering damage'
The minister says, however, that the alternative is that the baby’s mother could die – ending both of their lives.
# health-committee - Thursday 13 June, 2013
These are the three motions Peter Mathews put to the Fine Gael party last night
The pro-life TD put forward motions for the proposed legislation to be scrapped, the suicide clause removed and for members to have a free vote at a parliamentary party meeting last night.
# health-committee - Friday 17 May, 2013
A crash course in today's abortion legislation hearings
What’s it all about? TheJournal.ie takes you through the Health Committee proceedings.
# health-committee - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
Here is the list of witnesses to appear at abortion hearings
Unlike the committee’s previous hearings, there will be few representatives from advocacy or religious groups giving evidence.
# health-committee - Thursday 2 May, 2013
'Professional experts' only to be called for hearings on abortion bill
The Oireachtas Health Committee will hold three days of public hearings on the Heads of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013.
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