More than €1.3m available for mesh services but no staff hired

(Left to right) Adrienne Cassidy, Amanda Robinson Kelly, Dee Kavanagh, Margaret Byrne, Frances McDevitt, Louise Keogh and Siobhan Wall at Leinster House for an Oireachtas Health Committee hearing from women who have been affected by the vaginal mesh scandal. Picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos

More than €1.3m has been allocated to the HSE Mesh Complications Service, but women affected by serious health problems are frustrated with the pace of reforms.

It has been estimated that up to 10,000 women had vaginal mesh inserted to address health problems here, with a complication rate now estimated internationally at 10% to 12%.