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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 285. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there is a regional imbalance in therapeutic hypothermia cooling centres nationwide. [40953/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (8 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 282. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 463 to 466 of 2 July 2019, if a matter of hours would ensure that a baby would get the critical therapeutic hypothermia care the baby needs for the treatment to be effective (details supplied). [40950/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (8 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 283. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 463 to 466 of 2 July 2019, his views on the stated response time of a matter of hours in view of the finding in a document (details supplied). [40951/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (8 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 284. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 463 to 466 of 2 July 2019, his views on whether time is a huge factor for treatment and whether medical outcomes would improve if an ambulance from a more local depot was dispatched to carry out the transfer (details supplied). [40952/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (8 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 295. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider opening a drug treatment centre in north County Dublin in view of the increased population of the area and an increase in the number of persons seeking help for drug addiction. [41013/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (8 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing bodies that have tier 1 certified body status. [40590/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (8 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing bodies given tier 1 certified body status in the past year. [40591/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (8 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing bodies awarded a certified body status in the past year (details supplied). [40592/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Phil Ní Sheaghdha, the general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has described the trolley situation as escalating beyond crisis. September was the worst month this year. Last year, the winter initiative was not published until winter was well under way. We know winter is coming. I ask the Tánaiste to confirm it will be published before winter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Go on.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to preserve the archive of blood spot screening cards retained without consent between 1984 and 2011 which could provide a lifesaving diagnosis for a large number of at risk family members of sudden cardiac death victims that died within this timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40143/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to pick up on one point. A new GP contract not been issued. The Minister has just revised the existing contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister should not oversell it and should be clear. It is not a new GP contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: GPs say it is not a new contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Indeed, but it is not a new GP contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am, but I will not let this issue slide either. It is not a new GP contract. The Minister pats himself on the back enough. Is he aware that 82 patients were on trolleys last night in University Hospital Limerick?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Yesterday the Minister's boss, the Taoiseach, apologised to the patients who had been left on trolleys. There were 81. Now there are 82. There does not seem to be any change in that regard. The Minister will be aware that the trolley count started when Fianna Fáil was in government. We know that September was a record month and that the number now stands at 82. Does the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It is interesting that the Minister is only now looking at that issue. Improvements in transitional care services should have been made a long time ago. There were warnings about all of this when the reconfiguration was carried out against the wishes of the staff. They pointed out what was going to happen and it did. I must also reference my colleague Deputy Maurice Quinlivan who has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sure the Deputy does. I see the figures which show that new primary care centres are being opened. I will use an example from my constituency, which I have raised with the Minister many times. There is a primary care centre in Balbriggan and while I keep asking the Minister if it will get additional staff, he keeps telling me it will not and nor is there a plan to put in additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Could the Minister take a step back to where these 4,000 additional staff for primary care centres are coming from? These are for the primary care centres the Minister is talking about opening in the short to medium term. Those staff would have to be in college now or there would have to be some plan. If they are not in college now, then they will not be in post in time, and the facilities...