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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: I wish to ask Dr. Herity about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: May I get an answer to the question on the note from the HSE? I have asked three times.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: Of major concern to many, including me, is the fact that Dr. Herity received a note prepared by the HSE prior to commencing his deliberations. The note read: "However it has been the view of the Department that providing additional facilities and extending PPCI (angioplasty) services, in a geographical area which does not have the population base to justify such a service, would be wasteful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: Would Dr. Herity not have given extra weight to a note from the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: I can understand Dr. Herity obtaining advice on best practice in Europe, but the Department of Health had issued this note. Surely it had to carry extra weight.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: I thank all the witnesses for attending the committee today to address this very important issue. Whereas much of this has been said already in Waterford and the south east, this will be on the record of the House now, which is very important. On 17 October last, I wrote to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health to request that it examine the Herity report and to invite the relevant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: I mentioned that the Senator, Dr. Swanick, had asked Dr. Herity, doctor to doctor, whether he believed that lives are in danger as a result of there not being a second catheterisation laboratory and Dr. Herity said he did not and that patients should be treated in high-volume centres. Will the witnesses address that? Do they agree with his opinion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: Could I have a "Yes" or "No" answer to my final question? Have any of the recommendations in the Herity report been implemented to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: I had to push him three times on that before I got an answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: Absolutely.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: The "RTE Investigates" programme revealed deep suffering among men, women and children as people struggle with daily life while waiting on never-ending waiting lists. Each Deputy in the House, from all parties and none, deals week in and week out with constituents on waiting lists for treatment of hips, knees, eyes and endless other routine operations. The difference a new knee or hip can...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: I refer to two specific waiting lists in University Hospital Waterford. As the Minister knows, 6,000 people are awaiting orthopaedic operations, be it hip or knee. These are very successful operations and greatly improve people's quality of life. Most of the operations are done in Kilcreene Orthopaedic Hospital. Patients go into hospital on a Monday and are discharged on Thursday. They...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (9 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed timeframe for the Technological Universities Bill; when it will be before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6443/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools currently which have prefabricated classrooms by county, in tabular form. [6452/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (9 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any State or HSE funding available to support in full or in part the provision of physiotherapist or physiotherapy services at a nursing home (details supplied) in County Waterford [6416/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Administration (14 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being put in place for the allowance of the retrospective tax deductibility of the non-principal private residence, NPPR, in view of the recent High Court decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6669/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (14 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance when the recommendations of a working group (details supplied) will be complete; the agreed timelimes; if they will be delivered within those timelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6950/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Funding (14 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the current borrowings in excess of €1 million only of all HEA funded higher education institutions here, in tabular form; the original value and date of the loan; and the purpose of the loan and the repayment schedules, interest rates, lenders and nature of any State guarantee or underwriting of the loan. [6989/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: 359. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied) at University Hospital Waterford. [6685/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Feb 2017)

Mary Butler: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for knee and hip operations at University Hospital Waterford in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6907/17]