Health Committee to resume hearings on end of life care

Tomorrow the Committee will hear from Primary Palliative Care Initiative; Nursing Homes Ireland; Institute of Community Health Nursing, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland and Professor Declan Walsh, Professor of Palliative Medicine, Trinity College Dublin & University College Dublin.

Committee Chairman, Jerry Buttimer TD said: “Tomorrow, we will resume our hearings on end of life care when we will hear from groups and organisations involved in providing end of life and palliative care. It is important that those approaching end of life and their families, friends and loved ones are treated with dignity and respect and are given proper care and support. Death is a fact of life, 29,000 people died in Ireland during 2012 and up to 290,000 people were coming to terms with their loss.  Our series of meetings will allow us to consider how we currently care for those who are dying and how our health services are organised from an end of life perspective.”

The meeting will start at 5pm in Committee Room 1, Leinster House tomorrow, Tuesday, 5th November 2013.

Committee proceedings can be followed live here.

Media Enquiries to:

Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2

Committee Membership:

Deputies: Jerry Buttimer (Chair), Catherine Byrne, Ciara Conway (Vice-Chair), Regina Doherty, Robert Dowds, Peter M Fitzpatrick, Seamus Healy, Billy Kelleher, Eamonn Maloney, Mattie McGrath, Sandra McLellan, Dan Neville, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and Robert Troy

Senators: Colm Burke, John Crown, John Gilroy, Imelda Henry, Marc Mac Sharry and Jillian Van Turnhout