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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I am not hearing the evidence that the harm exists. When Dr. Rose talks of assessing the harm I am not convinced that harm necessarily exists. We are here to hear from everybody. We have a long way to run on this legislation. There is a great deal of scrutiny to get through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms O'Friel said substantial evidence exists that children are growing up unhappy. Does she have any actual evidence? There is much anecdotal evidence from people's friends and so on. What evidence that we could interrogate is there? Is there anything more substantial than saying there are potentially thousands of cases? There is the longitudinal study, which is welcome because it will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms O'Friel said they are crying out for research but that research is not done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Being able to engage critically is where we need to get to. The longitudinal study is great because we will have an opportunity to engage critically with it. It has to inform our work and what we are doing. On the comments about child abduction, I am fairly sure Ms O'Friel did not mean to be offensive. People in my life have been affected, which I do not offer as any kind of evidence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: One does not dream about or imagine that he or she will abduct them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms O'Friel said people would grab them out of the bush.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: No, she did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I will check the blacks on that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: -----and I am happy to get that clarification. I am sure Ms O'Friel did not mean to cause offence.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on this important legislation, some of which is technical in nature. It seeks to reintroduce a board to oversee the operations of the HSE. I hope this overarching premise means it will have beneficial ramifications for our health service. It is interesting to look at how we got here. Before I was elected to this House, I had the privilege of...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: When those people leave, we know that they are leaving to go to countries where the pay is better. Compared with those countries, they are not well paid. I hope that the new board has the opportunity to actively engage with healthcare professionals, learn from them and to be able and empowered to put in place strategies to recruit and retain key front-line healthcare professionals. That...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he plans to take to help homeowners in Fingal that require remediation work for their homes due to the contamination of concrete blocks with pyrite and mica; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1217/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 490. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Gambling Control Bill 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1665/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Payments (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 655. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the NTPF pays per patient per eye for cataract surgery and IOL implants from initial consultation to final review. [54492/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 656. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE pays per patient per eye for cataract surgery and IOL implants under the Cross Border Health Initiative from initial consultation to final review; and the cost of each respectively in tabular form. [54493/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 657. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a variance in the amount paid for children's dispensing from initial consultation to final review under the HSE contract between local and community areas. [54494/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 658. To ask the Minister for Health the reason primary school children are being discharged from eye care services with parents being forced to pay for eye examinations prior to appropriate alternatives being put in place. [54495/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Infrastructure Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 728. To ask the Minister for Health if the capital requirement and associated methodology pertaining to necessary development of national neurointerventional services at Beaumont Hospital has been provided for as part of the HSE Services Plan 2019 to continue with medical equipment and ambulance replacement and minor capital work programme to deal with prioritised infrastructural risk issues;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 729. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to accept the recommendations to include chiropractors as referrers and practitioners in the upcoming statutory instrument in view of the recommendation by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1283/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (15 Jan 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 730. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a post for a specialist sarcoma consultant has not been filled since the position was created in July 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1284/19]