Healthcare Policy
Dail Éireann — 2026-03-05
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Marie Sherlock (LAB), Dublin Central

I appreciate that. Hopefully, we will agree that there has been an issue in this country in that the clinicians operating here have not fully understood endometriosis, so there have been barriers to referring on. There is a challenge in this regard. NWIHP has to have the confidence to be able to put centres on a list. The reality, though, is that women have had to find centres using their own wit over the past number of years to get the appropriate care. If any lesson is to be learned from this experience, it is that we need to listen to them in terms of where they have got the appropriate care. These are the women who have gone before and are currently seeking assistance now. It is not good enough just to say that we will solely listen to the clinicians in this country, because there has been an issue that they have not been providing the services that women have needed here. There is a circle to square. It is not acceptable that the centres that have been used are excluded, and I hope they will be added.

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Sitting date: 2026-03-05