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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. O'Brien does not need to convince me. I am already convinced. I just do not believe that Mr. O'Brien has any plan and I consequently cannot help but come to the conclusion that he has not prioritised the conversion of agency staff into directly employed staff. Mr. O'Brien is presiding over a health service that is a deeply unattractive place for health professionals and support staff...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: With targets.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: It is right across the health service. It concerns support staff as well.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: When the IMO was before the committee, it pointed out to us that money ranked as number four in terms of the issues for doctors. It is not just about money. It cannot be reduced to that.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: There are no targets for that. Mr. O'Brien would be very quick to set targets for both accident and emergency department times and existing staff but there are no targets for this.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: My question on the full-capacity protocol was not addressed. I also want to correct a figure I gave. I said the figure for Tullamore hospital was 511 but it is 230.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: No, the figure is 230 and 511 for the group.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Does Mr. O'Brien agree that five days a week in Tullamore general hospital since January is not acceptable?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 2. To ask the Minister for Health the stretch income targets that have been set for each hospital group for 2017; the stretch income targets for each hospital in 2016; the total stretch income targets for 2016 and 2017; the direction that has been given to hospital groups in respect of the generation of private income; the consultation his Department and the HSE have had with each of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: My question refers to the "stretch income targets", not a term I like but one that the Minister and the Department have perhaps chosen. The people in charge of the hospital groups described them as unrealistic in their submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health. I am interested in knowing where they came from, who directs them, how they are decided and what happens in the event...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I am interested specifically in what happens when these targets are not met. When I asked the CEOs of the hospitals, their answer was that they were crossing their fingers in hopes that would not happen. In the event that it does happen, what direction has the Minister given the CEOs on where they should start to cut? Their word, not mine, was “unrealistic” to describe the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Is the Minister saying that if these targets are not met, his Department will come in and meet the shortfall? I do not think he is. That is not realistic and I do not think the hospitals believe it is realistic. I specifically asked the Minister where the cuts will be made because when the unrealistic targets - to use the term these people used - are not met, as they very well might not...

Other Questions: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Could I press the Minister of State on a date for the implementation plan? He mentioned my colleague, Councillor Natalie Treacy, and the Neurological Alliance of Ireland. Sinn Féin fully supports the We Need Our Heads Examined campaign but we need a date by which we will start seeing some movement on this issue and also confirmation that dedicated funding will be allocated, and what...

Other Questions: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: That would be great.

Other Questions: Maternity Services (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Midwives, who are members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, in Mayo University Hospital are being balloted on industrial action, a decision they have not taken lightly. They are doing so because of staff shortages. An additional 100 midwives is not enough; a total of 450 is required. The Minister's recruitment plans for the health service are not achieving their targets. Even...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 44. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an initiative he is reported to be taking with a European bloc of countries to negotiate collectively to lower prices of drugs; the status of meetings that he and officials from his Department have had with their European counterparts on this; the way in which he will proceed on this; if targets have been set; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 46. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department will take to increase capacity in acute hospitals and their emergency departments in view of the fact that the full capacity protocol was deployed 2,300 times across a 321-day period in 2016; if the full capacity protocol is the last escalation step in the national system-wide escalation framework and is now being used with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 80. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 558 of 15 November 2016, if the parameters and terms of reference for the bed capacity review have been set; the status of the bed capacity review; the person or body that will undertake this review; the timeframe for the review; when this will conclude; the definition of a bed in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Private Partnerships Data (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 66. To ask the Minister for Health the level of PFI, private finance initiative, or PPP, public private partnership, that currently exists in the health system; the details of any hospitals, primary care centres or other infrastructure and capital that is currently financed under PFI or PPP; the details of all such contracts; the annual PFI and PPP charges on each of these and in total...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 90. To ask the Minister for Health the data that exists relating to the number of treatments commissioned from the private sector versus the number of treatments carried out; the number, type and value of services and surgeries commissioned from the private sector; the number, type and value, the cost to the State and savings to the state of services and surgeries carried out by the private...