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Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: I will not add to the head of steam. While I am on my feet, I note this is a mental health issue and I wish to raise an issue in respect of another legislative item. Fifty years ago, a temporary building was put in place in St. Ita's in north Dublin to house people who needed to be admitted with acute psychiatric illnesses and they still are there today. There are 23 people to a single room...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: I will come to the legislation. When will the forthcoming mental capacity Bill be published? Why has the Minister-----

Order of Business (4 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: Please let me finish. Why has the Minister not made available funds to apply for planning permission? The money is available to build a unit in Beaumont. It was obliged to move because of the private co-located hospital. While another site is available, planning permission has not been applied for. Although this is the second decade of the third millennium, people are living in...

Written Answers — Criminal Legal Aid: Criminal Legal Aid (4 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on reports that legal aid applicants are waiting seven months to be appointed a solicitor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5750/10]

Hospital Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to tackle the number of patients waiting on trolleys in accident and emergency, which was recorded by a union (details supplied) at a high of 500 during January 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7227/10]

Hospital Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: I thank the Minister for her response. I welcome the fact that, not before time, the waiting time will be counted from the time the patient attends the accident and emergency department. To be frank, it is nonsensical to have any other system. The reality is that during January the figure reached 500 people on trolleys. It is a number of years since the Minister declared that this would be...

Hospital Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: I will ask a question. I want to ask about this constituent, whose father is aged 85 and lay on a trolley from Sunday night until last night. He has now been moved to a bed but he is still in an annex to accident and emergency in Beaumont Hospital. The recent contention of Professor Brendan Drumm that 30% of patients, because they are only in hospital for 48 hours, do not really need to be...

Hospital Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: The Minister should visit Holland.

Hospital Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: I did not refer to six days today but I will get the Minister the information, which relates to another person.

Hospital Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: We all get disorientated in here. It happens to the best of us. With regard to the Minister's semantics about somebody lying on a trolley, we all know what we mean by trolleys in accident and emergency and the length of time people have to wait. There is no question about that. What the Minister describes is something that will happen into the future. The reality is that people are lying...

Health Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether reducing in-patient procedures by between 46,000 and 54,000 in 2010 means that patients will have to wait longer for essential diagnostics and treatment and will result in increased pressure on accident and emergency departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6905/10]

Health Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: The plan is seeking a reduction of 33,313 emergency admissions and a reduction of 54,000 in-patient procedures, all of which is to be compensated by a small increase of 10,569. The arithmetic does not work out. When one compares the figures for planned in-patient surgery for January 2010 in respect of people waiting in pain to have gallstones removed, to have hernias repaired or for knee or...

Health Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: I do not want to get into semantics with the Minister but I hope we are measuring the number of people in A&E, rather than measuring people. The bottom line is that there have been serious delays in surgeries and people are being left in pain needlessly. Another issue is now arising. Given the Department's focus on breast cancer, people who are being screened for suspected cancer are being...

Health Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: I am concerned with Dublin where the problem is acute.

Health Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: Very few.

Health Services. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: It is not safe care though. That is the point.

Health Staff Work to Rule. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the work to rule by staff and the refusal by unions to cooperate in certain work practices and to cooperate in the transfer of staff has resulted in an impairment of patient care or services; if she will give assurances that no diminution of services to patients will occur as a result of the work to rule; the measures she has taken...

Health Staff Work to Rule. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: I know the HSE has expressed serious concern about the impact of this industrial action. According to reports, staff are not checking patients' daily treatment appointments. In addition they are not answering phones or agreeing to the redeployment of staff and the change in working hours currently in place, and are not providing weekend on-call arrangements. This is having an extremely...

Health Staff Work to Rule. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: I thank the Minister for her reply but pay is not the issue, patient care is. I hope the Minister will be able to use her good offices to engage with the unions and ensure that patient care is not compromised. She should not allow the situation to escalate as is clearly planned in March. I hope she will be able to give us some indication of what her plans are to deal with that. Some plans...

Health Staff Work to Rule. (11 Feb 2010)

James Reilly: Is there a provisional plan?