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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on scoliosis surgery at the Mater Hospital; and the length of time they have been waiting [41682/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Trials (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 349. To ask the Minister for Health if his or the HSE's attention has been drawn to the reason an organisation (details supplied) decided against rolling out a clinical trial of suvodirsen, an investigational therapy for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41699/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the roll-out of full access to free contraception as recommended by the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41938/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I did but it is fine.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Today is World Mental Health Day, and the Minister of State earlier referenced the HSE's mental health helpline. That phone number is not a replacement for the face-to-face care people need, and should never be advertised as such by anyone, though I am not suggesting that is what the Minister of State was doing. My fear is that that helpline will refer people to waiting lists. It is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: In response to a question from me, the Minister said that last year 75 public beds were opened. Perhaps we could get an indication as to whether they were left open or will be reopened. People want to know that. When I say, for example, "The likes of which have never been seen before", they are not my words. Rather, they are the words of a nurse working in Limerick. Does the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It is all downhill from here.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 2. To ask the Minister for Health when the winter plan 2019-20 will be published. [40975/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I will endeavour to be helpful. In fact, the policies of both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have brought us to this point. Perhaps the Minister and Deputy Donnelly can take some time afterwards to divvy up the exact portion of blame between themselves. I think the Minister will agree that he should have published the winter plan at this stage. Anyone looking in here who spent last night...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: This winter is coming. Nurses in Limerick have been already through the worst overcrowding they have ever seen in their long careers. They are at the end of their rope. The Minister is telling them they will get beds at some point in the future, but they know they will have to deal with the coming winter in the meantime. When will he publish the winter plan? Will it contain all the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Newborn Screening Cards (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 38. To ask the Minister for Health when the chair of the National Screening Committee will be appointed; and if he and the new chair will ensure that newborn screening services are expanded to test for a greater range of conditions; and if an expanded programme will be operational in 2020. [40980/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 46. To ask the Minister for Health if new funding will be released for the national maternity strategy for 2020; and if targeted funding will be allocated to help hire more consultant gynaecologists in order to reduce gynaecological waiting lists which are at nearly 30,000. [40978/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Debt Collection (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 48. To ask the Minister for Health if he will liaise with hospitals to ensure they do not use debt collection agencies to recover emergency department and hospital charges. [40976/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 87. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the necessary staff have not been recruited to ensure that the paediatric outpatient department and urgent care centre at Connolly Hospital can be operational from 8 a.m. until midnight, seven days a week, as was previously committed; and when the full staff complement will be in place. [40977/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 96. To ask the Minister for Health if the establishment of a day hospital in Swords, County Dublin will be considered. [40979/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The health service is in a perpetual state of crisis. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Jim Daly, knows that; I know it; we all know it. We see it every day in our advice clinics and read about it every day in the newspapers. It started a long time before the Government had the really convenient excuse of Brexit which it blames for everything that goes wrong. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The issue here is a fairly serious one inasmuch as it raises further questions. I have spoke to Ms Claire Healy as well. She should not have been obliged to talk to politicians. It should have been dealt with. We need to get Dr. Lorraine Doherty back in because there are questions to be asked. For example, one of the excuses offered as to why there may have been an issue with tracking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: There is an issue regarding movement from the public system to the private system. I spoke to a woman who had her smear test done privately and it showed that she needed an urgent intervention. However, because she had a test done on the public system in the previous year which was clear, she could not get back into the system as an urgent case, though her GP tried very hard to do so. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: There is no consistency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We should heavily emphasise that she should reply to the committee within a week.