Results 901-920 of 12,424 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: Could the correspondence also be circulated to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I asked a question about advanced nurse practitioners, ANPs. I wish to be very clear because we are short of time and possibly patience at this stage, although not in my case. There are 78 advanced nurse practitioners, but there should be 150. This time next year, if we are all lucky enough to be back, how many more ANPs will there be, taking into account the fact that some of them must be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: On my question about the number this time next year, will we be lucky to have 78, that is, if some do not retire?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I have an idea what it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: That is fair enough.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: The programme for Government, underpinned by a Sinn Féin motion which received cross-party support, commits the Government to the granting of an automatic medical card for children in receipt of domiciliary care allowance. The Taoiseach has told me repeatedly that it is on its way. Yet, this morning representatives from Our Children's Health were on the streets outside the Department...
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I would be glad if the Taoiseach supported it.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: When will it commence?
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: Some of them are listening to this discussion. It is cruel.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: The parents of these children will stay on the streets protesting. The Taoiseach should be ashamed.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (31 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: 601. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to exclude medical card holders and families with coeliac disease from availing of gluten-free products under the scheme. [4532/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (31 Jan 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the financial hardship endured by many persons and families with coeliac disease due to the costs of purchasing many gluten-free products; and his plans to either directly or in co-operation with other Departments improve supports to these persons and families [4533/17]
- Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: 28. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to implement the recommendations of an expert group report in August 2016 which called for additional nursing posts to be created and filled to look after all admitted patients in emergency departments and extra patients on wards; the steps that have been taken to secure and retain nursing positions that have been advertised;...
- Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: The question is about staffing in emergency departments, which is a frequent issue and one which I am sure the Minister is looking forward to debating.
- Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: That was a comprehensive and eloquent answer to a question I did not ask. I specifically asked about the 107 posts that were identified. Regrettably, we have all become used to accident and emergency department overcrowding. The staff, God love them, have to put up with it on a daily basis. Whatever plans this Government or the previous one had to deal with trolley numbers, they are now...
- Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: The HSE personnel were clear with us when they said that funding was not available or forthcoming from the Department for the 107 additional posts that are required. Let us be clear, they are required to nurse the people who are on trolleys.
- Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: The fact that people are on trolleys is a failure of Government policy, and nobody could dispute that. The HSE said, however, that there is no budget for those 107 nurses. What does the Minister say to the man or woman standing beside their elderly relative this evening who is on a trolley or in a chair in an accident and emergency department? It was agreed that 107 nurses is the absolute...
- Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: The question is very simple. I ask the total subvention paid from the public purse to GPs on an itemised basis if possible. I do not expect the Minister to read out all the figures but to give us a flavour of them, if he would be so good.
- Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: The Minister talks about wanting to make general practice an attractive option for GPs. It would be marvellous if it were an attractive option for practice nurses as well. A total of €81.6 million is spent on staffing, and a further several million - more than €21.5 million, I think - is spent on fee per procedure or fee per item. Does the Minister not think it would make...
- Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: For example, the Primary Care Reimbursement Service, PCRS, data for 2015 indicates excisions, cryotherapy and diathermy - basically, the removal of skin lesions - amounted to 156,996 procedures at a cost of nearly €4 million. Given that there will be a renegotiation of the general practitioner contract, there is substantial scope to give direct employment to practice nurses and reform...