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Butler cites Iceland model, seeks Drogheda gender clinic funding.

7/19/2026

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Minister of State Mary Butler praised Iceland’s informed-consent gender-health model in letter to HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster.
Butler asked Gloster to fund Dr Tomás Ahern’s gender clinic in Drogheda and add practitioner to cut waiting lists.
The Health Service Executive will recruit a lead after Karl Neff departs in 2026, with Department of Health, led by Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Butler, targeting a gender-health model by year-end.

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Minister of State Mary Butler praised Iceland’s informed-consent gender-health model in letter to HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster.
Butler asked Gloster to fund Dr Tomás Ahern’s gender clinic in Drogheda and add practitioner to cut waiting lists.
The Health Service Executive will recruit a lead after Karl Neff departs in 2026, with Department of Health, led by Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Butler, targeting a gender-health model by year-end.