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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: As there is a lot of material we know already, perhaps we might just have the highlights.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise in advance as I need to attend a quick meeting. I will ask my questions but will check the answers and correspond. I hope I will be back before this meeting is finished. I refer to the issue of stretched income targets. I believe Ms Cowan first alerted us to them some time ago. Reference was made to the difficulties they cause, and we attempted at that committee hearing to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it the case that they should be looking for this from private income but where they do not get it that is met by Supplementary Estimates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise for not being able to be here for the initial presentations. I have questions for both representative groups but forgive me if they have been already answered. I can look at the record for the answers in that case. Do the representative association members have any objection to their time being monitored? I worked in a union when a process of clocking in and out was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It is something of a double-edged sword as there is something in it for the employer, which can be satisfied that the work is being done, and there is something in it for the worker, who can say he or she turned up and was available for work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: There is nothing ordinary about doctors.

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I move:“That Dáil Éireann: notes that:— the health service is under huge strain following cuts made to its budgets during the austerity years and a lack of sustained investment to meet the growing and changing needs of our population; — one of the fallouts of this is a chronic lack of capacity within our acute hospitals; — medical and healthcare...

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It falls to me to close the debate. I thank the Deputies who contributed, both those who spoke in support of our motion as well as those who, while not necessarily supporting it, did not speak in opposition of it either. In particular, I thank the members of Fianna Fáil and other parties for lending their support to the Sinn Féin call for a pay commission to deal specifically with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions needed to fully implement the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 (details supplied); and the associated cost of each action, in tabular form. [54411/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Expenditure (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 690. To ask the Minister for Health the additional cost of allocating a medical card for all persons with disabilities who do not have a medical card. [54410/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 697. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional cost of home care if home-care entitlements were put on a statutory footing. [54437/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 951. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on trolleys in 2017 in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, in tabular form. [1069/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 952. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on trolleys in 2017 in the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital in tabular form. [1070/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 953. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on trolleys in 2017 in Tallaght children's hospital in tabular form. [1071/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 954. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on trolleys in 2017 in Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, in tabular form. [1072/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 955. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated for steroid use or abuse in each of the years 2009 to 2017, by sex and age ranges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1073/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 956. To ask the Minister for Health the target set by the HSE for hospitals for private practice income to be generated for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1074/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 957. To ask the Minister for Health if the recommendation by the national stroke programme, as part of the phased introduction of early supported discharge for a further nine teams to be established over a three-year period, is part of the 2018 national service plan; his plans to fund same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1075/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 958. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of stroke beds; the number and location of each; if funding is being made available in the HSE service plan for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1076/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (16 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 959. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of stroke units; if so, the number and the locations of each; if funding is being made available in the HSE service plan for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1077/18]