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Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The section only refers to service and wages. They are the minimum. It just refers to service and remuneration. The latter is a word I hate because I always say it wrong. The Minister of State will know as well as I do that one's terms and conditions of employment are made up of a whole range of things. It is not just one's wages and service. If I am missing it, I apologise but it seems...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Could the Minister of State do so, because it seems narrow? It might be that I am misreading it.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Absolutely, I will of course.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Last May in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal many assurances were given to women. In what was a difficult time for women and women's healthcare in the State one of the appropriate and sensible responses by the Minister for Health was the offer of a free repeat smear for those women who were concerned. It was what many people had been calling for at the time. It was generally assumed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: While the Tánaiste's apology is welcome, there is not much evidence that this is actually a priority. Anybody could have predicted that there would be an upsurge in the uptake of smear tests because women were concerned. I thought it would have been very easy to predict that but, instead, a promise was made and a commitment given, and that was broken. I put the question again to the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Sinn Féin actively campaigned against the 27th amendment to the Constitution and the subsequent provisions in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, which sought to deny Irish citizenship to children born in Ireland to parents who are not Irish. It was wrong then and it continues to be wrong now. Politicians come in here and criticise President Trump for the deportation of children...

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I echo the sentiment expressed by my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, regarding this being a step in the right direction, but it really is just a step and is not what the Garda representative organisations want. They want trade union status, to be represented by a recognised trade union and to have the protections that gives. It is interesting that the people in these buildings who have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to ask about the gov.ieportal project, on which the GIS has been working with the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer to develop. The Taoiseach said previously that it is part of the e-government strategy for the period 2017 to 2020 to rationalise existing Government websites and online services over time. Will the gov.ieportal replace in time all the departmental...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The withholding of information was at the centre of the CervicalCheck scandal, and in the immediate aftermath, information was selectively leaked and drip fed into the public domain. The Minister for Health complained in the House about the manner in which some of that information was being drip fed. In the immediate aftermath of this latest leak the people affected said they were...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: As the Taoiseach is aware, schools that have been built by Western Building Systems are now under investigation by the Department of Education and Skills. The Taoiseach spoke earlier about public services. Reference was also made to how woefully inadequate they are, but inadequate as they are, people cannot access the service if they do not have a school building to go to. Students in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The Taoiseach mentioned that legal proceedings are under way in four out of 40 of the cases. Are there plans to initiate legal proceedings in respect of the remainder? With regard to the contingency arrangements, reference was made earlier to the question of spin versus substance. There will have to be a roll-out of information for the parents concerned. There is probably no need to hire...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 64. To ask the Minister for Health the reason in spite of his commitment to address the recruitment and retention crisis affecting the nursing and midwifery professions, the HSE has stated that there is only one nursing application for every four nursing vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43842/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: My question, like all my questions, is relatively simple. It relates to the recruitment and retention crisis, in light of the fact that nurses and midwives in the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, have rejected the results of the Public Service Pay Commission, PSPC. It strikes me that nothing concrete is being done to address this that works. I am sure the Minister will list...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I have some small knowledge of industrial relations between nurses and the State. If the Minister does not acknowledge and address the issue of pay, he will leave nurses and midwives with no choice. The Minister has said, and we all know, the last thing nurses wish to do is contemplate industrial action, but that involves them being given another option. He described the recent pay...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister missed an important point in the PSSA which was also in other agreements, including the one on which Fianna Fáil reneged. The point is that the parties reserve the right to go back to the table and renegotiate if the circumstances change. When I was "back in my twos", as my dad would say, when circumstances changed we were quickly dragged back to the table in order that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 66. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the suspended list for scoliosis surgery; the number who have been treated abroad in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43878/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The parents of children waiting for scoliosis surgery have described the manner in which the lists are treated as an exercise in manipulation, with people being moved from one list to another, and letters being sent to the parents of sick children expecting unrealistically quick replies. "Manipulation" is their word but I do not disagree with them. Can the Minister provide us with...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand that 347 surgeries have been performed to date. The Minister gave the target for this year. To hit that, 100 further surgeries must be performed between now and the end of the year, including the Christmas period. Is the Minister confident that these will take place? To be straight with him, I would not I refer to the number of surgeries abroad that are offered and not...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: This is complex but complications can also arise for these children as a result of having to wait. Their condition can deteriorate to the point where surgery may not be viable. This morning, I spoke to a parent who asked what will happen to children who are left with permanent impairment as a result of delays. Whether we accept the extent to which they are being dealt with effectively, we...