110. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if complementary therapies, including massage, reflexology, acupuncture, aroma therapy or hydrotherapy, once referred by a general practitioner, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalen laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014; if not, if in making this decision, she has considered the international medical evidence in relation to massage therapy and acupuncture in particular; and if consideration has been provided to the international scientific evidence in relation to the use of aroma therapy specifically in the counselling treatment of survivors of physical and-or sexual abuse. [5109/15]

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110. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if complementary therapies, including massage, reflexology, acupuncture, aroma therapy or hydrotherapy, once referred by a general practitioner, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalen laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014; if not, if in making this decision, she has considered the international medical evidence in relation to massage therapy and acupuncture in particular; and if consideration has been provided to the international scientific evidence in relation to the use of aroma therapy specifically in the counselling treatment of survivors of physical and-or sexual abuse. [5109/15]

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1. 4 February 2015

   Magdalen Laundries

   110. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if complementary therapies, including massage, reflexology, acupuncture, aroma therapy or hydrotherapy, once referred by a general practitioner, will be made available to survivors of the Magdalen laundries under the provisions of the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014; if not, if in making this decision, she has considered the international medical evidence in relation to massage therapy and acupuncture in particular; and if consideration has been provided to the international scientific evidence in relation to the use of aroma therapy specifically in the counselling treatment of survivors of physical and-or sexual abuse. [5109/15]

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