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- Hospital Staff (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: I will not ask a supplementary question, rather I will repeat the questions I asked that the Minister did not answer. Why were interns excluded and what services will be curtailed or reconfigured due to the forecasted shortages? If she is answering only one question, the most important one is the latter.
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the basis of the Health Service Executive decision to cease surgery, particularly elective surgery, at Navan Hospital, County Meath; the clinical reasons behind this decision; the details of the HSE review into this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35141/10]
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: I thank the Minister for her reply. I will point out a number of issues. The Minister mentioned two cases, one of which involved the mother of a general practitioner who asked that his mother's case be removed because he has no issue concerning the manner of treatment given. The surgery facilities at Navan have been cancelled for elective surgery too. Some 1,800 cases are performed there...
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: I thank the Minister for orientating me.
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: At least the Minister clarified one thing for the people of the north-east. It is all about money and not patient safety. As the Minister well knows, the reason we are not mentioning Navan hospital in tonight's motion is that any question in regard to it would probably be disallowed if it influenced the motion. To get back to the real question, the Minister has acknowledged that it is a...
- Hospital Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister says that to live within the budget they must cancel the entire service. That is not funny for the people who must use that service.
- Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reverse the Health Service Executive dental policy decision which advises dentists not to fill cavities in children's teeth in view of the fact that it puts children's health at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35143/10]
- Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: I should like to put on the record of the House the fact that I am informed that Navan hospital is not over budget, in response to my last question that was dealt with by the Minister. In regard to this issue, the Minister will forgive me if I read out a section of a report from the Dental Protection Ireland. Dental Protection Ireland, DPL, the specialist risk management group, has raised...
- Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: Does the Minister accept this opinion, which comes from an internationally respected body with no conflicts of interest in terms of costings? Is this yet another policy born out of a desire to save money rather than saving children from pain and distress?
- Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister listens to experts; I listen to experts.
- Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: I will ask the Minister a simple question. Does she accept the literature that is available in the dental world in the moment, or will she depend, as she so often does, on information to come in the future when dictating policy that affects the welfare of our children?
- Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: Would the Minister not accept, then, that this person is out of kilter with the rest of the HSE, and does she not think it appropriate for her to seek advice from the remaining dental practitioners within the HSE about whether it is safe to continue this practice?
- Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply, and acknowledge the fact that he was not in charge of this portfolio for much of the duration of the pain and suffering that people have had to endure in these institutions and acute psychiatric admission units. The Minister to his right, however, has persisted with the policy of co-located hospitals, particularly at Beaumont, which impinges on...
- Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: May I ask a supplementary question?
- Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: I will take the cut on my next question because this is terribly important.
- Mental Health Services (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister of State said we are not discussing plans for the future and that he has done X, Y and Z. The reality is that the patients of St. Ita's still do not know when they will be accommodated by a psychiatric admissions unit in Dublin north. We have not been told when the unit will be built. Will it be done sometime in the future when planning permission is received? In the...
- Health Service Investigations (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Hayes Report into the non-reporting of nearly 58,000 X-rays and the failure to process thousands of general practitioner referral letters at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, has completed their work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34780/10]
- Health Service Investigations (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: I will be brief, to save time.
- Health Service Investigations (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: The Minister promised that the review would be ready in June but it was since delayed to September. Today she informs us that it will be published at some point in the future. That is not acceptable to the people of Tallaght who want a definite date by which they will be made aware of the contents of the report. Will the Minister set out a firm date on which the report will be made...
- Health Service Investigations (5 Oct 2010)
James Reilly: When will the HIQA report on how letters should be dealt with be made available to us? When can we expect the report on dignity for patients?