Results 5,501-5,520 of 12,424 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 5:In page 8, line 18, after “ “(iva)” to insert the following:“an Irish citizen who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, a British citizen who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, and”. I will withdraw the amendment on the basis of the clarification offered by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. It will be...

Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 6:In page 8, line 22, after “ “(iva)” to insert the following:“an Irish citizen who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, a British citizen who is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland, and”. I will withdraw this amendment on the basis of the clarification received earlier.

Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I very much welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion. I am interested to hear from the Government what could possibly be its arguments against a living wage. A living wage prevents in-work poverty. Will the Minister say that she is pro in-work poverty or that she is a cheerleader for it? Is it that she does not know people who work all the hours God sends and still go to bed every...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card reviews that have been carried out to date in 2019; the number that have been refused to date; and the number that have been successful to date [41673/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 334. To ask the Minister for Health his plans or the plans of the HSE to restore allowances to a society (details supplied) that were cut during the austerity years; and his further plans to add coeliac disease to the long-term illness scheme [41674/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for a first outpatient appointment across all specialties by hospital and length of time waiting in tabular form. [41675/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 338. To ask the Minister for Health when the recommendations made by the Ombudsman for Children will be implemented in respect off the establishment of child specific wait lists and target outpatient waits for children. [41678/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the one-to-five-year alternative care pathway for children with comorbidities who require and cannot access timely scoliosis care in an acute hospital setting here in view of the ongoing crisis in recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals. [41676/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 337. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow for the outsourcing of scoliosis surgeries via the NTPF in view of the ongoing crisis in recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals and the excessive wait times for scoliosis surgery experienced by children. [41677/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal monitoring surgeries that have been cancelled and rescheduled in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals during 2018 and to date in 2019 due to a lack of access to a spinal monitoring team; and his views on the current spinal monitoring arrangement in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals in view of Brexit and the fact the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on suspended waiting lists for scoliosis surgery in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals; and the length of time they have been suspended. [41683/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have been completely removed from scoliosis surgery waiting lists in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals since Jan 2017 without having a completed surgery. [41684/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 339. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that some HSE hospitals report all adults on scoliosis waiting lists to the NTPF; and if he will supply a list of all such hospitals [41679/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children waiting for scoliosis surgery; the number of scoliosis surgeries that have been completed in University Hospital Galway to date in 2019. [41680/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on scoliosis surgery at the Mater Hospital; and the length of time they have been waiting [41682/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Trials (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 349. To ask the Minister for Health if his or the HSE's attention has been drawn to the reason an organisation (details supplied) decided against rolling out a clinical trial of suvodirsen, an investigational therapy for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41699/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the roll-out of full access to free contraception as recommended by the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41938/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (16 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the start date of a sarcoma specialist post in St. Vincent’s University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42388/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination, and Public Display) Bill 2018: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: He is a great advert for transplantation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination, and Public Display) Bill 2018: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank all the witnesses for coming in and I wish Mr. McCutcheon a happy anniversary. I echo what Deputy Murphy O'Mahony said. Part of me thinks we should not have pre-legislative scrutiny on this and that we should just do implement it. I will put my cards on the table. There is cross-party consensus on this, as all parties are agreed on the need for it. I am willing to be corrected on...