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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Perhaps we could be told what grades the staff in question were serving at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I think we will. I assure the Chairman that the meeting was ably chaired in his absence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am much more of a pushover. I gave everybody a lot of leeway. I share the horror of others regarding the failure of people who were on quality assurance visits to realise that they were not where they should have been or where the majority of tests were taking place. I do not know whether "horror" is too strong a word, but I will use it in any event. In the last line of his letter to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay. I suggest that Dr. Scally's statement that he had no reason to revise the opinion was not a massive ringing endorsement. That does not matter. We know that a lot of information was missing. This meant that Dr. Scally could not necessarily make such a judgment. I presume the reference to "performance which is acceptable in their country" is based on an acceptance that there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That is where my issue lies. We know some countries compare more favourably for all sorts of things. Saying that a performance is the same as an emerging economy jurisdiction is not the same as saying it is of a sufficiently high standard. If we consider ourselves to have a high standard, should we compare ourselves with country A which has relatively low standards and all the labs perform...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Nonetheless, on the basis of that, Dr. Scally was able to ascertain confidence.

Special Educational Needs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Deputies for bringing forward the motion. I want to take time to mention something that is nearly working in my own constituency. I am referring to a little boy by the name of Rory Kilduff. Rory has a place in Gaelscoil Ros Eo. He is five years of age and is very much looking forward to being able to go to school. However, he has a condition known as Vacterl syndrome. I will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take in view of the fact that the application for the provision of a primary school on a temporary basis at a location has been rejected; his plans to avert the crisis unfolding due to the rejection of the planning application; and if temporary accommodation will be available for new students to attend a school (details...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on agency staff in the health service to date in 2019, by occupation, hospital and community healthcare organisation, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29463/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the decisions taken by the senior leadership team of the HSE at its monthly sittings relating to drugs reimbursement and the recommendations issued by the drugs group of the HSE to the team on same, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29464/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 459. To ask the Minister for Health if the closing of 27 medical step-down respite beds at St. Mary’s Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin 20, is in line with the principles and aims of Sláintecare. [29729/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 460. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 29 May 2019, the recommended medical, infrastructural and accessibility designation criteria for a major trauma centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29730/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank our guests for their submissions. I have particularly noted three phrases used so far, namely, the references to mitigating the deficit, re-profiling and making interventions. All of those phrases mean the same thing, which is cuts. That is what they mean to people who will not get the service. Whether that is a service that was expected and not delivered or an actual cut, the net...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: This letter is from Mr. Desmond to Ms Anne O'Connor, dated 11 April 2019. In it, Mr. Desmond states, referring to the value improvement programme, that the Department is acutely aware of the different approaches required in 2019 and that it is evident, from the submission, that there has been considerable engagement at operational level to develop and formulate a monitoring and reporting...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Is the monitoring group referred to in that correspondence the oversight group?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand the Department must have its procedures - I get that - but I have to say sometimes the Department does not help its own cause with its groups and committees, etc. I am perfectly willing to accept that information is publicly available but, as a public representative who has a small degree of experience dealing with the health service, it should be available to me and I cannot...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Mulvany and I have spoken previously about what are known as stretch income targets for private income into the public health service. His colleague, Mr. Woods, and I have also had some discussions about it at the Joint Committee on Health. Are the stretch income targets still in place?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Mulvany knows those were not my words. They were the words contained in correspondence between a chief executive officer and the HSE.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Stretch income targets were not something that I invented or had a dream about. That phrase came from a very senior person in the HSE and Mr. Mulvany knows that. I did not make it up. The perception is certainly that stretch income targets were imposed on people and hospital chief executive officers. If Mr. Mulvany is telling me now that those no longer exist, I am happy to accept that. ...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise and will conclude with one more question after this one.