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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Every time I stand in this Chamber, am I to be barracked by the men in Fianna Fáil?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: May I please be allowed the facility to speak without the lovely gentlemen-----

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: -----from Fianna Fáil barracking me at every opportunity? Will the Deputies please restrain themselves?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (8 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: We emerged from Government Buildings to be told there was new legislation to be brought in to be known as the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill. We did not know it would be shortened to FEMPI and become shorthand and common currency within the public service and public lexicon. It was one of the greatest travesties perpetrated on public servants because it was called...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: On the same matter raised by Deputy Micheál Martin, it is incredible that members of the Government have managed to avoid much of the commentary on and discussion about the report of the trauma steering group. I will outline what it contains. In short, it proposes the redirecting of trauma patients to the supposed centres of excellence. However, we have seen all of this previously,...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: There is an all-party committee on the future of health care. There is substantial evidence that the report will be material to the work of that committee. Will the Tánaiste ensure every report that is vital to the business of that committee will be laid before it? Otherwise, what will happen is that it will report and immediately afterwards another report will issue. Given that we...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Every party here bought into the establishment of the committee and we are hopeful it will be able to conduct its business. However, we cannot work in a vacuum and it is unfair to expect that we will. Will the Tánaiste insist that any and all available reports, including those in draft form, are laid before the committee?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: There is.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: It is correct to say that people are concerned. While I respect what the Tánaiste has said, it might be that she and her colleagues have given over their weekend to speculating about internal party matters. Perhaps if she had been talking to people who are concerned about this, she would know that the concerns that are being raised are not raised in order to frighten people...

Business of Dáil (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: We object to the vote being taken today. We are only two or three weeks into a new system of voting, with votes due to take place on a Thursday, and we should stick with the system and not bend the rules so soon, those same rules having just been formed.

Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Last year, the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, announced a major package of patient safety reforms, including plans to simplify the complaints procedure, enhance the powers of the Ombudsman and the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, and introduce a tranche of patient safety legislation. A part of that package was the patient safety (licensing of healthcare facilities) Bill, which is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Help Service Data (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 2. To ask the Minister for Health the number of banked and paid for hours that home-help workers are due; the breakdown of these by region; the number of hours that have been cut from persons in the same areas for the period 2014 to 2016 to date; the number of home-help hours projected for 2016 and the percentage of these that have been delivered to date; and if he will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Help Service Data (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: This question relates to home-help services. I had the privilege and pleasure of representing home helps during the negotiations for the contract to which the question relates. The purpose of the contract was to ensure they would have stability of hours with a certain degree of flexibility built in. According to reports in the media, from which, disappointingly, we are getting a lot of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Help Service Data (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: That was a comprehensive answer to a question I did not ask the Minister of State. I asked for specific details about the number of banked hours. She told me of about 67 people in the Cork and Kerry region who had banked 100 hours or more. How many hours are banked in the system? I do not think any Deputy in the House would dispute Sinn Féin's position on the matter. We are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Help Service Data (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Specifically, every local figure is required. I have brought that to the Minister of State now and perhaps she could come back to me with the answer. Some people are put to the pin of their collar now because their home-help services are being cut. The only reviews that happen are reviews with a view to downgrading services. The evidence of people who attend my clinics and those held...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 20. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 213 to 215, inclusive, of 23 June 2015, the actions he is taking to ensure patient safety in terms of investigating why certain hospitals have higher than average death rates; if he will undertake any investigations or follow-up action following the publication of the second annual report of the national health care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Governance (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 24. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing a legislative based accountability framework for Health Service Executive employees; the consultation or meetings he has had on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20913/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 46. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to legislate for a distinct new medical need ground for eligibility for the medical card with an assessment involving the establishment of a threshold of medical need and not tested against a household’s financial means or against diagnosis titles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20916/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 89. To ask the Minister for Health the service that will be put in place to replace the eye-testing service for fifth and sixth class students as part of the primary school children optical scheme, following its discontinuation earlier in 2016; if reforms or new services will be in place before the resumption of school in September 2016 and the timeframe for this; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (12 Jul 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 93. To ask the Minister for Health given that the Crowe Horwath report, into the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, is reported to note that, over the last few years, the nursing board did not have a productive working relationship with his Department, his plans to remedy this; if he has met the NMBI since taking office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20915/16]