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Hospital Building Projects. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Hear, hear.

Health Services. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will regulate public and private home care providers to ensure that home care services are registered and inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority so that services reach a high standard and vulnerable people are offered the best care and protection within their home; and if she will make a statement on the...

Health Services. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for her reply but we are spending more than €300 million a year on home care and the report by the National Economic Social Forum has uncovered major flaws in this sector which is unregulated. It found that care workers could be sent into homes of vulnerable people with no background Garda checks, many carers were untrained despite being required to look after...

Health Services. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Tá sé ag teacht. It is important to put this in context.

Health Services. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: That is fine. I can make a free speech with no problem. It is not a question of an evaluation report. It is a question of putting in place real protection for the elderly and vulnerable in our society. We have read stories in the press of people being relieved of money to pay for petrol; being asked for loans. A whole array of things is going on. I have met some of the people delivering...

Health Services. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: When will we have an independent inspectorate to enforce these standards?

Health Services. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: I do not understand why we have to wait for a code. Is this legislation on the legislative clár?

Health Services. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: When can we expect to have an inspectorate?

Health Services. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: The Minister of State cannot tell us then.

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the impact the revised programme for Government commitment to proceed with the current programme of co-location limited to already committed projects under the existing project contractual agreements will have on her co-location project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39346/09]

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Back to front - how does one spell NAMA back to front? Deputy O'Sullivan put the issue succinctly at the outset of the debate on this issue. Four years and four months have passed and not a single bed has been provided. Some 21,000 people gave up their health insurance during this year. The VHI estimates that by the end of next year the number will have increased to 200,000. Co-location...

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: The VHI does not believe that.

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: Far be it from me to stand in the way.

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: It did not happen by accident.

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: It is all very well to speak of following best standards and practice in terms of how one deals with it when it happens, but if the Minister applied best standards in terms of not having the place overcrowded having closed down half of the facilities in the north east-----

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: -----she would not have this situation in the Drogheda hospital, which is a hospital that has suffered from many disquieting scandals over the years. After four years and four months - if the Government remains in office the Minister may be in office until 2012 - the Minister has become well known for plans for the future as a substitute for action today. I have no faith that 2012 will...

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: What will the Minister do about this? She has told the House that we do not have money. However, we are spending €5,000 per man, woman and child in this country. They spend only €3,500 in Holland where they do not have this problem. They do not even have the hand-washing dispensers in the hospitals, and I asked why. The response was that they do not have a problem. They do not have...

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: I supported the Minister on cervical checks. I supported her cervical vaccine.

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: No, I did not.