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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 2. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding a potential financial shortfall for the HSE of up to €881 million before the end of 2018; his plans to rectify this; if more funding will be forthcoming; if hospitals will have to increase stretch income targets to meet the shortfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6473/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Deputy Kelleher can add my name to that list. Of course it is not possible and the Minister knows that well. The Minister published a plan knowing he did not have the money to fulfil it. Several questions leap out following the Minister's statement. The Minister referred to transparency. In truth, that this information is in the public domain is down to freedom of information requests...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I am delighted the Minister and Deputy Kelleher agree with me. I have been saying it since 2005.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I have no problem with that when I am right.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I am delighted people are finally agreeing with what I have been saying for the past 13 years. I think I can go home now as my job is done. The Minister is not going to hit value for money targets by reducing travel costs. To suggest he will is insulting to people.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not know of people in senior management, or at any level, in the HSE who actually drive around to claim expenses. I do not believe that happens.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I am happy the Minister has confirmed it will not affect people on the front line delivering services. Saying something is transparent because it can be obtained under freedom of information is an issue on which we will eternally disagree. If it was a freedom of information request, it would not be there. The correspondence shows there is a tension of sorts between the Department and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I asked the Minister for the targets but there are none.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Yet trolley numbers are increasing too.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I do comment on those positive developments.

Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister stated that talks are at a sensitive stage. I do not believe they are and I have had that confirmed to me in the past couple of seconds. In fact, very little talking is taking place. The Minister also talks about a process. It is important that the record of this House reflects that there was no process when these workers were having their pay cut, there was no recourse and...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 11. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the difficulties in accessing home care packages in Dublin city and county in which the HSE is only providing palliative care in view of the fact it does not have the funding for extra staff to provide a full range of home care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6369/18]

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is fairly specific. It is to ask for the views on the difficulties accessing home care packages. I will be very clear with the Minister of State. It is not an opportunity to tell us a lovely story about how there are no difficulties. There are difficulties. I am aware of them and so are my constituency colleagues. The Minister of State must be aware of them as well. Will...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I was looking for a comment on the difficulties. The Minister of State has accurately described the recruitment difficulties and I am sure they exist. I am not convinced, and the Minister of State has probably heard me say this on more than one occasion, that outsourcing this function to the private sector is the best way to do it. In many cases, notwithstanding the good work done by the...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: No.

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 13. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has discontinued waiting list targets set in 2017; the number of persons who will be affected; the number of complex cases still waiting for surgery; if new more ambitious targets will be now set; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6365/18]

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: This question specifically relates to scoliosis but arises from contact that we have had from campaign groups to advise us that they are being told that the waiting lists have been discontinued. The targets which were set were not met so we do need to talk about that and it appears that the waiting lists have now been suspended, which is very worrying for people who had loved ones on those lists.

Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister knows that the operating theatre only opens three days a week. Five days a week would be preferable or seven days a week if there was any sense of urgency about this issue. I have specifically raised the 68 medically complex cases with the Minister on a number of occasions, not for sport but because it is being raised with me. It would appear that the reality of people on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Staff (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 19. To ask the Minister for Health the reason primary care centres (details supplied) will not be provided with additional new staff hires; the way in which these centres will now be staffed; if staff will be taken from the surrounding areas; if this will reduce services beyond the remit of the primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6367/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (8 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 79. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE target of eliminating emergency department waiting times of greater than 24 hours for persons over 75 years of age were met for 2017; the number of persons over 75 years of age that have had a wait of more than 24 hours in an emergency department in 2017; the hospital in which the wait occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6366/18]