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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Putting a security presence into accident and emergency departments.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The rate of staff turnover for nurses and midwives is 7.9%. This should not be the case. It should be a career for life and somewhere people want to work and stay because we really need them to stay but the workplaces are unsafe. It is regrettable that there are accident and emergency departments where staff are exposed to a level of risk and do not have a security presence. The Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 23. To ask the Minister for Health the measures taken to tackle the appointment of non-specialist doctors as consultants; the steps he has taken to address this issue since it was first raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16980/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 29. To ask the Minister for Health his views on falling general practitioner numbers; the steps he is taking to address to address the fall in numbers through the negotiation of a new general practitioner contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16979/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 56. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the move towards primary care; if additional staff will be provided for new primary care centres; if not, the centres that will not receive additional new staff; the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16977/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 76. To ask the Minister for Health his views on waiting lists for children with scoliosis needing surgery; if new targets will be forthcoming for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16976/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 105. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address problems regarding pay and pay equality for nurses in view of the recruitment and retention crisis for nursing and midwifery staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16978/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 244. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults on health care staff in hospitals across the State in each of the years 2008 to 2017, by number of assaults and the hospital in which the assault took place, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17212/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the number of security staff, associated with an agency or directly employed, working in hospitals across the State in each of the years 2008 to 2017 by hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17213/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the BreastCheck western unit is to withdraw its mobile unit from Sligo town and relocate to the village of Collooney; his views on whether this will result in access problems to the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17335/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (19 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if BreastCheck will be engaging with Sligo County Council to facilitate the locating of the BreastCheck mobile unit in Sligo town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17336/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (18 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Good morning. As we have a quorum, I call the meeting to order. We will first go into private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: We are in public session. We are meeting with PA Consulting, authors of the Health Service Capacity Review report for 2018. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Stephen Smyth, Mr. Tim Daly, Mr. Chris Nightingale and Mr. George MacGinnis of PA Consulting. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Thank you very much Mr. MacGinnis. I will invite committee members to ask questions and we will take them in groups of three. I ask members to bank the questions. I call Senator Burke, Deputy Donnelly and Deputy Durkan in that order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Will they take a while to answer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Then it might be wiser to ask one or two, after which the Deputy will have an opportunity to speak again. Is that okay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I also have a few questions to ask, as do Deputies Bernard J. Durkan and Alan Kelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: If the delegates take those questions, Deputies Alan Kelly and Stephen S. Donnelly and I will have an opportunity to ask further questions later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes. I will then move on because Deputies Bernard J. Durkan and Alan Kelly have questions to ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Deputy Durkan had some questions and we will get to those answers.