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- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: -----and the situation there has been described by consultants as a war zone. At University College Hospital Galway and in Merlin Park University Hospital this week, more than 850 people were informed that all outpatient rheumatology clinics for July and August had been cancelled and that emergency outpatient appointments would be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. There are already 1,500...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: When a person is diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, there is a 12-week window within which there is a chance of dealing with the condition if he or she gets treatment. If it goes longer, perhaps to two and a half years, which is the length of time people are spending on the waiting list at the moment, the patient's chance of beating that condition are severely restricted. In UCHG, all...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: Deputies Naughten and Fitzmaurice highlighted that yesterday. We are led to believe that further cancellations of elective surgery will take place at UCHG. Is it acceptable that 850 people will be told this week that their outpatient rheumatology appointments will be in December? Is it acceptable that in the case of rheumatology, a consultant has gone on maternity leave this week and will...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: The consultants that are currently in Galway are not full-time rheumatology consultants. Two of them are in general medicine as well. That means we have one and a half consultants. Second, the vacancy that has arisen and that has driven the total closure of the clinic at Merlin Park - it is not just that appointments have been cancelled; outpatient appointments at Merlin Park have been...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: -----who are waiting for a rheumatology appointment at Merlin Park. Ireland is a no-go zone for consultants. We are having serious difficulties filling consultant vacancies.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: No matter how many budgets the Government is putting forward, people are not planning this properly. The Minister said the HSE had informed him, but I contacted the HSE about this on Tuesday evening and was told it was not a matter for the HSE but for the Saolta hospital group. When I contacted the Saolta hospital group yesterday morning, its so-called communications department said it was...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: The Minister of Health must comment on what is going on at Beaumont.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: He cannot allow one of the main hospitals in the country to be as it is at the moment.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: We need serious action on consultant recruitment. We need great urgency. It is clear that these hospital groups, which were created by the Minister and the former Minister, Deputy Reilly, are not fit for purpose.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: There has been a 1,500% increase in the waiting list. That is a fact.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: The 1,500% increase is a fact.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: What about the waiting lists?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: It is not as if they did not have notice.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: The Government had four years.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: Four years.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: It is not reasonable to leave 2,500 people waiting for an rheumatology appointment.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: Let them eat cake.
- Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: I wish to ask firstly about the serious information that has come to light in the past couple of days at the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland. It seems that information about Brendan Smyth and his activities was known by various State agencies. Is the Government monitoring that inquiry? Does it have any plans to allow statements in this House about the serious...
- Order of Business (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: What plans does the Government have to deal with that ahead of the recess? I understand the Tánaiste is out of the House attending the funeral of Lorcán Miller this morning. Our thoughts are with all the families. I want to place on record my party's appreciation of the Ceann Comhairle, the protocol office in the Department of the Taoiseach and everybody involved in St. Ann's...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (25 Jun 2015)
Dara Calleary: 169. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have Lyme disease added to the long-term illness scheme. [25500/15]