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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Ms Carr. I wanted to raise this again because that is the reality. We can have all the plans, the work and the decent gestures we want, but if the reality is that we have a quadriplegic man, fully capable of going back to work and fully capable of leading quite an independent life with the right supports, who was discharged almost a year ago from the NRH, then something is badly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: It struck me as extraordinary, when I spoke to this mother, that she was waiting for over a year for an assessment. Is the Department aware that we have young girls with curved spines who are no longer able to sit in their own wheelchairs, sitting on the floor, waiting for a year for an assessment for a new wheelchair? Is the Department aware that is the level of the crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I have just arrived back to the committee room and I do not want to waste people's time. I was going to ask a question on enforcement; has that issue been discussed already?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I did not hear the statement from HIQA but I read it earlier this morning. One of the issues raised was that under the proposed Bill, HIQA will not have any enforcement powers, which would make Ireland an outlier. I would appreciate comment on that from all of the parties involved. If it has already been discussed I am happy to go back and look through the transcripts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That was a good answer. On the separate Bill, are there plans to bring in the enforcement powers? I am referring to the Bill that does not have them. I also wanted to ask about the available resources and the need to ensure that HIQA, the Department and the hospitals themselves, are adequately resourced. There is extra and important work to be done in that regard. If that has already...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: That is fine; I will read over the transcript later. On the enforcement issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Is it the case that we will have enforcement under licenses but not under patient safety? Is it the case that that is no greater power than that which HIQA already has?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Does HIQA have sufficient powers under patient safety at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Is there an opportunity to bring it in under this Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thought that Dr. Holohan was saying was that under the new Act, enforcement in respect of other activities would be granted. Perhaps an amendment Bill is required. We need to get to a point where HIQA can enforce its recommendations. There are substantial enforcement powers within this legislation. If we are going in that direction anyway - and it seems we should be - is this Bill an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion (13 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The intention is to bring in enforcement powers with patient safety but that it is just not part of the current Bill.

Independent Clinical Review of Maternity Services at Portiuncula University Hospital: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: On behalf of Fianna Fáil, I wish to extend our thoughts to the mothers, fathers and babies at the centre of the Portiuncula University Hospital report. What the report highlights is truly outrageous and scandalous. The report on maternity services at Portiuncula University Hospital was released approximately two months ago. It did not get much attention because we were in the middle...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (14 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the allocation of special teaching hours of a school (details supplied); the expected completion date for the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Data (19 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 453. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes to be passed and connected with regard to the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26196/18]

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I commend Deputy Louise O'Reilly for tabling the motion which Fianna Fáil will support. Imagine spending every day in intense and debilitating pain knowing that there is a standard operation available but that, because one lives in Ireland and does not have private health insurance, one has to wait two and a half years for it. That is the story of Sarah from Wicklow who is waiting...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I broadly support what Deputy O'Reilly is doing. A lot of effort has been put into curbing alcohol advertising in the real world, on television and on radio but 50% of advertising spend in Ireland is now online. That is because it is highly effective and it targets industry growth in this area. I encourage the Minister of State to talk to the Minister for Health and his officials about...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I support the amendment. It seems eminently sensible. We regularly hear about the societal, human and economic cost of people arriving and emergency departments and other health facilities. It appears to me this would be a sensible addition to the Bill.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I do not think amendment No. 17 is related.

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 9:In page 13, line 31, after “form” to insert “, in both the English and Irish language,”. The proposal is that the warnings on the labelling and on premises in the various places envisaged by the Bill would be in English and Irish. There are various reasons for this, one being cultural in terms of recognition of the Irish language. In the...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister of State. I am sorry to hear that. I acknowledge that the Minister of State is reading out the response on behalf of the Minister. The Minister and I discussed this. The clear understanding he gave me was not what the Minister of State has read out. My clear understanding was that we would discuss it and that it would be acknowledged and that I would withdraw the...