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I will address the women in the House.

What is important for us is actually making progress on endometriosis and there is some progress taking place. The first major difference we have, and this does not account for the many years of underinvestment in and under-recognition of women's health, is that we have a dedicated women and infants health programme. That has made some difference to how maternity services are conceived. We have more work to do there. It has made some difference with regard to how menopause services are conceived and we have more wo…

-----to reduce the amount of travel and make sure there is an opportunity to get more regional care. In the countermotion we try to set out what has happened, what has yet to happen and to recognise that there are different choices. The point was raised about private treatment and choices. Women are entitled to choose. I want them to be treated within the public system.

I want women to be treated within the public system. I want to make sure that women have every option to be treated in the public system.

However, where a woman has gone abroad, she must be supported when she comes back to Ireland. We have set that out in the countermotion.

That is an outrageous statement to make in the House. That is a term used in domestic abuse situations.

It is by a woman.

I am trying to deal with this issue. Forgive me.

Am I entitled to speak for one minute, a Cheann Comhairle?

I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Eireann" and substitute the following: "recognises that: — endometriosis is one of the most common gynaecological conditions in Ireland and approximately one in ten women may have endometriosis; — there is a wide range of symptoms associated with this condition and the burden of disease varies from person to person; — some women may have endometriosis that goes undetected, while for others endometriosis can have a significant impact on their quality of life; a…

However, I cannot allow clinical decisions to be on the record of the Dáil.

I do not wish to speak across the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, whose voice is just as important as anybody else's in the House. I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle's discretion.

I did not say that.

I will take this on the basis of it being a health matter. The HSE and the NCCP have recently been working with community organisations to distribute the 2025 funding of €5.5 million. The first call for the full members of the Alliance of Community Cancer Support Centres, of which Purple House is one, is now almost complete and the second call for the associate members is now under way. I think some of the groups the Deputy mentioned are within that group. The Alliance has 21 full members and 22 associate members. …

I thank the Deputy for her question. This concern is specific to Portiuncula, which demonstrated a much higher than expected rate of requirement for Caesarean sections and cooling of the baby. This was a specific issue. All of the recommendations of the Walker report were implemented. There has been a 100% increase in the number of obstetric consultants and a 25% increase in the number of midwives at Portiuncula. The report has been implemented and increased resources were provided yet there is still a problem. We …

Every single one of them.

I thank Senator Ní Chuilinn for raising this important topic and again apologise for the problem last week. The Government remains committed to providing continued investment in the health workforce, including public health nurses, and ensuring this incredibly important service is available for those who need it. Public health nurses are employed by the HSE to deliver safe, quality and person-centred community nursing care across a person's life. As of May this year, there are 1,493 whole-time equivalent, WTE, publ…

I know that the Senator has been a very strong advocate for this area. It is my privilege to be able to provide this update to her. I thank her for raising this so that I could provide this update to her very publicly and her constituents. Perhaps we might have a further conversation a number of months into their work from September 2025. I will certainly bring the Senator's suggestion back to the HSE. Again, I thank her for advocacy.

I thank Senator O’Reilly for raising this matter and for the opportunity to discuss this very important issue for Cavan but for people more generally. As we know, at a higher level, primary care therapy services generally, such as speech and language therapy, play an absolutely central role in enhancing the health and well-being of both children and adults in the community. However, the Senator and I are both aware and have discussed separately the very important early intervention measures that speech and language…