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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: We have the question and I will now ask the Minister to respond because other people-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: The question is about recruitment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: I call the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: Do you want to answer that question from Deputy Ó Caoláin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: I will take the next group of questioners, Senator Colm Burke, and Deputies Regina Doherty, Healy and Catherine Byrne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: I will take Deputy Catherine Byrne followed by Deputy McLellan. Senator Crown has left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: Deputy Kelleher raised an issue which has also come to my attention. In University Hospital Waterford, there were no pillows or blankets available to people on trolleys. Although the numbers of people on trolleys has decreased today, it is not good enough. If we accept that there are people on trolleys trying to access beds, at least the very basics should be provided for them. I would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: Demand has increased. Is that the reason?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: I now call Deputy Ó Caoláin and we will finish on this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: Yes, I was going to make that point. They are a stand-alone, separate body. That may be something that we will take the opportunity to highlight to the relevant bodies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Accident and Emergency Departments: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (15 Jan 2015)

Ciara Conway: Thank you, Minister. I appreciate that. I wish to thank the Minister, Mr. O'Brien, Ms Fitzgerald, Dr. Henry, Mr. Breslin and Mr. Healy for taking the time to be with us here today. We wish them well because it is not over yet. I wish to advise members that we have a vote in the Dáil.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (17 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: 156. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48523/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: How is the HSE as a service provider and funder of other organisations going to ensure that there is a quality relationship? We have seen now that all the HIQA reports in the world will not make a blind bit of difference for the residents. It is alarming for parents and relatives not just in respect of bungalow 3, but across the country. It is alarming for parents of children who have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Áras Attracta: HSE (16 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: I thank Mr. O'Brien for his opening remarks. Here we are again on foot of a "Prime Time" investigation programme. Nobody who watched the programme the other night did not draw parallels between what we saw carried out in Áras Attracta and what we saw in the child care setting. The similarity is that those in receipt of the service are non-verbal, exposed to danger and vulnerable. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: HIQA's report states - Ms McGuinness states the HSE has already acted on this - that certain people indicated that they do not possess the appropriate skills in respect of the duties they currently perform and that they have not been given job descriptions. Ms McGuinness provided an undertaking to review the position in this regard. There appears to be a stand-off between the HSE and HIQA....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: These questions may already have been asked, but to go back over what Deputy McLellan raised, we heard quite clearly from HIQA and from the HSE's own members that they themselves felt they did not have the requisite skills. That is what they told the inspectors. There is obviously a variance between what HIQA is telling us and what Ms McGuinness has told us today. She said they all have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: It is stated that the HSE is in breach of its own policy. Why have a policy if it is going to be breached? The other question I wanted to ask concerns standards. Are there best practice standards? Is there a national policy on pre-hospital care? Who put these standards in place and who oversees them? The witnesses might tell us more about the pre-hospital care council - who they are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (16 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: 521. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 11 November 2014, regarding records from Airmount Hospital, County Waterford, if he will provide details as to the identity of the Dublin based private records management company referred to in the response; the location of the cache of records that they hold; the way these records may be accessed and by whom;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport Provision (10 Dec 2014)

Ciara Conway: 121. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Waterford who sought to avail of hospital transport was deemed not eligible for the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47376/14]