Results 3,721-3,740 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly
- Ambulance Service (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister does not seem to understand that one cannot fix accident and emergency departments unless one fixes the entire system. If one tries to fix accident and emergency departments in isolation, one moves the problem to the wards or back into the community. Will the Minister explain why in almost six years in the job she has been unable to address this issue, why she has reduced the...
- Ambulance Service (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: Unfortunately, this considerable attention is not helping patients. In Beaumont Hospital, even with the fair deal scheme, the Minister freed up 30 odd beds but closed 52 beds making the situation worse. I do not accept the Minister's contention that there are health and safety reasons for not having a cabin full of trolleys. The real reason is that if those trolleys were made available,...
- Ambulance Service (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: Why can these trolleys not be stored in accident and emergency departments? Why are there not enough beds in the hospitals to accommodate the number of emergency patients who regularly need admission? It is not about the number of people attending accident and emergency departments but about the number of people lying on trolleys waiting for admission and urgent medical care, which they are...
- Ambulance Service (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister should not rephrase the question, which she is excellent at doing.
- Ambulance Service (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister should address the question and not everything else.
- Ambulance Service (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister should tell that to the patients waiting on trolleys.
- Medical Misdiagnosis (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the recent cases of misdiagnosis in maternity hospitals and the steps she will take to address the issue and the serious concerns of the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26183/10]
- Medical Misdiagnosis (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: I join with the Minister in offering my sympathy to those who have been affected. This is yet another scandal which was left uncovered and unanswered until Melissa Redmond and her husband Michael decided to go public with it. I commend them on their courage in doing that. Many women have come forward since then. Some 250 telephone calls have been made to the helpline by women and their...
- Medical Misdiagnosis (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: The HSE is in charge of this investigation and if it appoints to people to do it, it remains under its remit. That is totally unacceptable to the Opposition and to the vast number of patients who use our health service. The executive has not been found to be suitable to investigate itself no more than any other group in the country is suitable to investigate itself. We should have a...
- Medical Misdiagnosis (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: I have to dispute that. HIQA officials say they cannot act as patient advocates.
- Medical Misdiagnosis (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: I have to correct the record.
- Community Pharmacy Services (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: What role does the Minister see for community pharmacists? Does she agree with the basic tenet that I and Fine Gael have been promoting through our fair care policy, which is that patients should be treated at the lowest level of complexity that is safe, timely and efficient? We are not using the full scope of the primary care team. There are 800 pharmacists trained in the administration of...
- Hospital Services (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: I hope I will be allowed time to address all those statements because, to be frank, the HSE might be happy and the Minister might be happy, patients are not happy, I am not happy and neither are the people on this side of the House.
- Hospital Services (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: Scans are not always appropriate but by God, they are appropriate if a pregnancy is going to be terminated by doing a D and C, then one better bloody well have a scan. Second, why are people not afforded the opportunity to have a second scan in those situations? Expecting a woman and her partner, having just been devastated by the news that they have lost their unborn baby, to have the...
- Hospital Services (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister should give them the resources.
- Hospital Services (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister, like everyone else, understands motor cars. A two year old car with 300,000 miles on it is clapped out. The machine in question had a huge workload on it. The Minister cannot answer the question because she has not carried out an audit of these ultra sound machines, as she was asked to do. Will the Minister's new investigation address the issue of protocols, training and...
- Hospital Services (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: That is not an answer to the question. The Minister should deal with the issue.
- Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: I suggested it be wound down in an orderly fashion.
- Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: There is no business out there-----
- Leaders' Questions. (22 Jun 2010)
James Reilly: The Taoiseach is not convincing anyone.