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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 337. To ask the Minister for Health if funding issues are causing beds at the National Rehabilitation Hospital to remain empty and not staffed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5056/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5057/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical facilities including maternity theatres, hospital wards, surgical theatres and so on nationally which are not operational or have been closed due to staff shortages or funding issues; the location of same; the cost of maintenance, security, cleaning and so on; the length of time they have been closed or non-operational; the reason they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the BreastCheck mobile units which will cease screening in several areas in 2019 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5059/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 417. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to provide free access to termination of pregnancy services for women from Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5491/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 418. To ask the Minister for Health if pharmacies that have indicated their willingness to participate in termination of pregnancy services have now been authorised to dispense the relevant medications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5492/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 419. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the availability and national distribution of termination of pregnancy services in hospital settings; the number of hospitals providing termination of pregnancy services under sections 9 to 12, inclusive, of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 and their adequacy to meet demand; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 420. To ask the Minister for Health if guidance has been issued to general practitioners who are not participating in termination of pregnancy services on the model of care and the referral pathways to those who are participating in the provision of the new service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5494/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 421. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to improve access to contraception in 2019; if this includes measures to remove the cost barrier to accessing long-acting reversible contraceptives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5495/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 428. To ask the Minister for Health if all Travellers will be provided with a medical card, in view of the perceived level of Traveller health inequalities that exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5524/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 429. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated for gambling addiction in each of the years from 2007 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5525/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 430. To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated nationwide gambling prevalence survey will be undertaken to identify the number of problem gamblers here, ascertain the scale of problem gambling and put the correct supports in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5526/19]

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sharing time with Deputy Ó Caoláin. I thank those women and their families who came forward. I remind the House that the State wanted Vicky Phelan to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Because that non-disclosure agreement was resisted, information came into the public domain. Now everybody says we all are in favour of such information always being in the public domain but...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: On 5 December, the Minister told us he was informed by the Department of Health that this issue had arisen and that the HSE was establishing the facts. He then received subsequent interim updates, pending the completion of the work of the expert clinical team and the final confirmation.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: As I said yesterday, the National Association of General Practitioners, NAGP, wrote to the Minister to outline the backlog in August of last year. That was a fairly strongly worded letter that came from Maitiú Ó Tuathail of the NAGP. However, it does not appear that the Department or the Minister's office acted on the concerns that were raised therein. There are four months...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Once awareness of an issue like cervical cancer is raised, notwithstanding the problems, demand is going to go up. That was already known, yet it does appear that no work was done to ensure that the capacity existed. It was very easy to see that there was going to be an increase in demand yet it seems no work was done to ensure that the extra capacity was added. Extra capacity was going to...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I have no objection to that but if we are not going to have a back-and-forth-----

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: -----very specific questions have been asked.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: During the course of our contributions we have all asked questions. The Minister has been taking notes and if the Minister is confident to go ahead then I am happy to also cede my time on the basis that we get our questions answered.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: To clarify, I asked what exactly had been done before the offer was made to every woman and whether steps were taken to inject that capacity into the system. My point on outsourcing was that it was a political decision, albeit not made by the Minister's Government. It was a political not a clinical decision. Regardless of what is in the Scally report, therefore, we have never seen any...