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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That is plugging the gap.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I am very familiar with the contract. I negotiated it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That is a very good argument for the HSE to be the sole provider. If the HSE was adequately fulfilling the demand, there would not be a need for outside recruitment. There would be a sufficient pool of staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I was asked by a home carer who had been approached to work for 15 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That is a good point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The single assessment tool, SAT.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It is very difficult for people working in home care, very often on very low rates of pay, to be told on the one hand they have never had it so good and that the economy is booming, and on the other hand that the shillings are not there. It is about priorities. It is very difficult for someone on a very low income to hear about a proposal on tax cuts when the proposal for a modest increase...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (13 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 135. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that Cork University Hospital has only one medical registrar at night due to staff shortages and that the hospital cannot procure a replacement. [52571/18]

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

Louise O'Reilly: I will do my very best by talking quickly. The ink was not even dry on the Health Regulation (Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 when we saw a letter from the chief medical officer, CMO, making clear that the three-day period the Government included in the legislation was not recommended by the committee and will, in fact, be four days. This is in direct contradiction to what the Minister...

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

Louise O'Reilly: That was my understanding too. I will provide the Taoiseach with a copy of this, because it is very worrying.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I will not need all that time. I thank Deputy Brassil for bringing this Bill forward. Deputy Brassil and I are members of the Joint Committee on Health. We have had occasion to attend many presentations and hearings on the issue of access to orphan medicines. We have also been approached, as every person in this House probably has, by patients, their families and clinicians on this very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Commencement of Legislation (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in the commencement of Part 9 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; the steps she has taken to date to address the issue; when this Part of the Act will be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53440/18]

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion this evening and I also welcome the people from the campaign groups in the Gallery. It is a matter that has exercised people hugely, and as Deputy Munster indicated, there are many positives within the motion. We know a motion has no legal standing but it provides an important opportunity for me and others to state that this topic is a...

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: They would quite happily not engage with politicians if they could reasonably avoid it. These people have engaged with us nonetheless. If they thought everything in the motion was already being done and was a priority on the Government's agenda, they would probably be in town doing some Christmas shopping or at home with their families. They would not be sending us emails or contacting us...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax Forms (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Med 2 form needs a signature from the spouse of the claimant; the arrangements made to facilitate a claim without this signature in cases in which the claimant and spouse are estranged, for example, in the case of domestic abuse; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Expenditure (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of delivering general practitioner care for those cohorts that are entitled to free general practitioner care, that is, medical card holders, general practitioner visit card holders, persons over 75 years of age, children and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53823/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons directly employed by the HSE to provide home support services. [53824/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing ten directly employed home care workers to provide home support services. [53825/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Information and Communications Technology (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe and cost per year of full implementation of the e-health system. [53826/18]