Results 441-460 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I will give a quick background. Fifty years ago in Aberdeen a pilot study was started in this area. Forty years later we undertook a pilot study, in 1999. Here we are nearly ten years later and it is still promised. With the best will in the world, the Minister told us last summer we would have it by the end of the year. She told us in the autumn that we would have it on 1 January. Then...

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Will the Minister just answer the question? Will she give us a deadline that she will keep and a commitment to which she will stick?

Hospitals Building Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I thank the Minister for making arrangements before Christmas for some patients to be transferred from the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire, thus releasing badly needed beds. There is more capacity in new facilities. Does the Minister of State, Deputy Devins, not accept that the outcome for victims of stroke is far superior from dedicated stroke units than from some type...

Accident and Emergency Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: There were 400 people on trolleys two weeks ago. That is 20% more than in January 2007. A total of 57,000 bed days were lost last year between the Beaumont and Mater Hospitals, which is the equivalent of a 150-bed hospital being closed for a year.

Accident and Emergency Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Will the Minister acknowledge that we have a capacity problem and that demand is outstripping supply? We can reduce demand by putting in place things such as prevention, national body tests, diagnostics in the community and one-stop-shops in the community where people can be seen and treated by their general practitioner without having to go to hospital. We can increase capacity by getting...

Accident and Emergency Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I extend my sympathies to her family. It is all plans for tomorrow and cutbacks today. Irish men, women and children are dying. Will the Minister use modular hospitals, as they do throughout Europe, to build 1,500 community beds, rather than 200 or 300 such beds, over the next six months? I thank the Minister for alluding to such hospitals earlier in response to a question I asked. The...

Accident and Emergency Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: It demonstrates a serious intent.

Ambulance Service. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I have noted what the Minister has said. As I am a magnanimous sort of person, like the Minister herself, I like to impart information occasionally. I remind the Minister that housing, education and public facilities affect longevity, but we do not have community facilities like those in Sweden.

Ambulance Service. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I tabled this question because I am concerned that on 18 January 2007, Dublin Fire Brigade had four ambulances tied up at the Mater Hospital for between two and three hours and three further ambulances tied up at Beaumont Hospital. The seven ambulances in question, which represent over 60% of Dublin Fire Brigade's ambulance service, could not be used because the service could not get its...

Ambulance Service. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: It is.

Ambulance Service. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I would be grateful if the Minister could organise that, bearing in mind the 75,000 incidents — 205 incidents a day — which must be dealt with by the Dublin Fire Brigade.

Care of the Elderly. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I confirm what Deputy O'Sullivan has said. Representatives of Age Action Ireland have said they feel they were not properly consulted. Perhaps the legal difficulties being experienced by the Attorney General with regard to this Bill are a consequence of this lack of consultation. The Minister has given many good examples of how the new scheme, A Fair Deal, is expected to work. In...

Care of the Elderly. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: What does the Minister mean by running down other assets before the family home?

Care of the Elderly. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: It is in the document.

Care of the Elderly. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister of State should make sure she crosses at a zebra crossing.

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I will have a look at that.

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I would not mind if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle would not mind. The failure of the Minister to give us a proper date that she will commit to is disturbing. I hope she will find herself able to deliver on this within the next number of weeks. Despite her extensive answer earlier, she did give a commitment that the programme would be launched in January.

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: That is not a word I would ever associate with the Minister.

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I will do my best.

Office for Disability and Mental Health. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Has the office a budget and what role will it have in the spend of the health budget on mental health, disability and elder care?