Deputy Conlan calls for establishment of a board of redress to compensate victims of symphysiotomy – 16/04/13

Deputy Sean Conlan has called upon the Government to acknowledge the wrong done to the victims of Symphysiotomy and to facilitate the establishment of a board of redress to properly compensate the women affected.

Deputy Conlan when speaking on the matter in Dail Eireann stated that “it is imperative that these women are allowed to seek compensation for the debilitating effects they have suffered as a result of the now defunct practice of carrying out a Symphysiotomy”.

Deputy Conlan called on the government to amend the anomaly in the law which prevents these women from access to justice when the practice of Symphysiotomy has only recently come to the publics and indeed the victim’s knowledge”.

It is a priority of this Government to ensure that the women who have had this procedure have their health needs comprehensively and professionally met. In this regard Deputy Conlan would like to remind any women who have had a Symphysiotomy carried out that they may be eligible for full general medical services and that they have access to gynaecological and orthopaedic care as well as counselling, physiotherapy, home help, acupuncture and osteopathy.