The Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill will not attend this year’s IMO AGM, the Medical
Independent (MI) has confirmed.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health said the Minister is “unfortunately unable to attend the IMO Annual General Meeting this year due to an unavoidable diary clash”.
“The Minister has already extended an offer in writing to meet with representatives from the IMO at the earliest opportunity and is looking forward to meeting with them in the very near future.”
A source told MI that the Minister will be abroad when the AGM is taking place in Killarney on 24-26 April. It is customary for the Minister to
attend IMO AGMs, where they usually make an
address to delegates.
It is understood that HSE CEO Mr Bernard Gloster will be in attendance at the meeting, which will see a number of panel discussions on a variety of issues.
One of the discussions will examine ‘the malign force of pornography in fuelling sexual and gender-based violence’. Ms Ruth Breslin, Director at the Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute; Mr Eoghan Cleary, Teacher and Assistant Principal in Temple Carrig Secondary School, Wicklow; and Dr Madeleine Ní Dhálaigh, GP, Castlerea, Co Roscommon, will take part in the discussion on Friday 25 April.
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