Image via Wikipedia And now for something completely different but very very important. The government are currently holding a public consultation on the matter of organ donation at the moment. There was a conference on it in Dublin today and it got someone in the Civil Service (waves to all Maman Poulet’s gov.ie based readers) […]
Tags:Department of Health·Ireland·Organ donation·Organ transplant
Minister for Health, Mary Harney this morning launched a report on a major study entitled Supporting LGBT Lives: A Study of the Mental Health and Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People . You may remember the survey phase of the project and my post about it in late 2007. The reports authors, Paula […]
Tags:Gay Lesbian and Bisexual·Health Service Executive·LGBT·Mental Health·Sexual orientation·Suicide Prevention
Other than wonder about the nature of the group which helped the mother in the Roscommon Case take a High Court action everyone should be asking What were the schools doing? What did the doctor or public health nurse do? What did the neighbours do? The shopkeepers? Why didn’t the health board go through other […]
Tags:Child abuse·Child protection·Church·Iona Institute·Roman Catholic Church·Social work
Tommy Collison is one of the youngest bloggers in Ireland. He’s now also the winner of the Junior Category of the Social and Behavioural Sciences Section in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition. Like many other bloggers I read about the development of the project and was looking forward to seeing the results. Tommy’s project was […]
Tags:BT Young Scientist Exhibition·Cerebral Palsy·Disability·Sociology
Minister for Social And Family Affairs, Mary Hanafin, told reporters on Friday that the Department is engaged in an equality review of the social welfare code. Ian in the comments poses the question… Is this the review announced by Coughlan in 2004? “As I outlined, a key objective of the Bill is to remove the […]
Tags:Mary Hanafin·Minister for Social and Family Affairs·Social And Family Affairs·Social welfare provision