Results 601-620 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: The Minister of State's reply is completely unsatisfactory. It is completely unacceptable that in 2008 we are dependent on volunteers and volunteer staff members to be available, on a haphazard basis, to assist in interpreting for people with hearing difficulties. Surely there are not so many hospitals that we cannot appoint to them properly accredited people to act as interpreters. The...
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: The Minister is reading out gobbledegook provided by officials at the Department of Health and Children. What is an access officer? We want interpreters to be appointed in order that patients might have their consultations and clinical examinations carried out in a meaningful fashion in order that people will not be misinformed and to avoid misunderstandings. Will the Minister of State...
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: That is very useful.
- Hospital Staff. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: The Minister announced the agreement on the contract, to great fanfare, a couple of months ago. What has happened in the interim? Why is the IHCA of the view that nothing meaningful has occurred? Is it possible that a new contract will not come into being in 2008 and that the HSE will not, therefore, employ any new consultants, thus avoiding the â¬300 million shortfall it faces in the...
- Hospital Staff. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: There is funding for only 20.
- Hospital Staff. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: If there are 6,000 hospital doctors comprising 2,000 consultants and 4,000 non-consultant hospital doctors, which will change to 4,000 consultants, the pay equivalents do not stack up. Junior hospital doctors cost so much only because of the inordinate overtime they do, up to 100 hours per week. I doubt that is envisaged in the new consultant contract, so it will never be a 1:1 or even 1:2...
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: I must refer to the Minister's comments on general practice. It is a great shame, given that she mentioned the good work done by GPs, that the funding for GP training this year was pulled and the 75 extra places so badly needed to train doctors of the future will not now be available. In light of the PPARS debacle and the Comptroller and Auditor General's report for last year, which...
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: It is not happening under the current one.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: I thank the Minister for that response, which is clearly straight out of God knows what. The reality is that Beaumont Hospital was built 24 years ago and a psychiatric outpatient and inpatient unit was to be located therein. The proposed unit was taken over to contain the overflow of patients from medical and surgical beds and, subsequently, when that problem was resolved, it was used to...
- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: We do not have it.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Why did the original project not proceed? Why the change?
- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: "Yes" is the answer.
- Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: I thank my colleague, Deputy Charles Flanagan, for raising this timely issue. It is time to get tough on criminality and anti-social behaviour. We have reached a crisis point in respect of law and order. The figures suggest that the reporting of crime is down. However, this does not mean that crime levels have fallen. The figures to which I refer do not take account of the fact that many...
- Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: What about people such as Padraig Nally and others who were tormented?
- Anti-Social Behaviour: Motion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: I am not suggesting that what happened in these cases is right but it is a reflection of the frustration and vulnerability that people, particularly those who live in isolated areas, feel. There was a rash of crimes of this nature 20 years ago. They stopped when an elderly farmer fired a shotgun out of an upstairs window. We do not want to see such situations arise again. We want...
- Written Answers — Departmental Advertising: Departmental Advertising (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the reported Health Service Executive intention to boycott advertising (details supplied) purely because the station is fulfilling its public service remit by raising health service issues of concern to its listeners and the public at large; her views on whether this is an abuse of public moneys in a democracy, tantamount...
- Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason funding for the development of homeless services has not been provided in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9776/08]
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (6 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Transport his Departments progress in relation to decentralisation to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9743/08]
- Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (6 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will make a statement on the outcome of his recent meeting with PARC representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9744/08]
- Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: It does not work.