161. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the advice or recommendations advanced in the formulation of the Gender Recognition Bill 2014; if she is satisfied that the proposed removal of a provision for a medicalised model of recognition is adequate or safe in view of the fact that a long-term study (details supplied) of up to 30 years which followed 324 persons who had sex reassignment surgery found that, beginning about ten years after having the surgery, the transgendered persons began to experience increasing mental difficulties with suicide mortality rates rising to almost 20 times higher than the comparable non-transgender population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23060/15]

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161. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the advice or recommendations advanced in the formulation of the Gender Recognition Bill 2014; if she is satisfied that the proposed removal of a provision for a medicalised model of recognition is adequate or safe in view of the fact that a long-term study (details supplied) of up to 30 years which followed 324 persons who had sex reassignment surgery found that, beginning about ten years after having the surgery, the transgendered persons began to experience increasing mental difficulties with suicide mortality rates rising to almost 20 times higher than the comparable non-transgender population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23060/15]

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