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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It has been delayed for long enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: For the record, I do not think this is a slight delay. I think it is a huge delay for people who are waiting on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the fact that they will see it soon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to come back to the NTPF.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It has been stated in response to a question that the performance of each hospital in the context of listed criteria will be monitored on a constant basis. My reading of the reply is that it would be monitored on a constant basis by the NTPF. It is a State agency but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Do the senior staff in the NTPF work for the fund or for another State agency? Are they on secondment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it a substantive post as opposed to a post within the HSE? The staff in the Department, the HSE and the NTPF are closely connected. Officials who worked for the HSE now work for the NTPF and there is interchangeability. The reply to the question is, "the performance will be monitored". Is the Minister satisfied that there is robust monitoring of the NTPF by the NTPF itself, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Who will monitor the NTPF.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: NTPF staff compiled the lists about which RTE made the programme. The Minister can understand why people will question the NTPF but when committee members do, the answer is that the NTPF monitors itself. That is not a satisfactory answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is the Minister satisfied that they are doing a good job?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Fair play to the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: A target is set when we want people to reach it. I am relieved that there will be no comeback if they do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is the restoration of the allowance to NCHDs included in the budget?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I asked a question about anomaly scans. We are in that general area. I wish to be very specific. I asked exactly when the scans will be available to all women? In the interests of time, could the date be provided? If there is not one, then I ask that the witnesses would put their hands up in that regard.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Page 55 of the programme for Government commits the Government to the introduction of a dental health package to enhance existing checks and to include a comprehensive preventative dental health programme. Children in my constituency are having the checks that are supposed to be in place already cancelled and deferred. Will the Tánaiste indicate when the national oral health policy...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not what I asked. I asked about the date for the national oral health policy.

Other Questions: Property Tax Exemptions (28 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: May I ask a question on the same issue?

Other Questions: Property Tax Exemptions (28 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I have raised this issue with the Minister previously, at which time he indicated he would ask the Department to examine it. The response received was to the effect that the Minister is not prepared to do anything. This is a growing problem not only in Fingal but across the country. There are people whose homes are effectively valueless yet they have to pay the property tax. I echo Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (28 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 510. To ask the Minister for Health if he, or a body under the aegis of his Department, has received correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) in respect of funding; if he will liaise with this organisation and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to ensure that parenting programmes and summer groups receive additional funding needed; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (28 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 648. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 22 February 2017 his plans to assist those persons that had been on a compassionate based programme of the drug (details supplied); if he will intervene to ensure a mechanism is put in place to ensure access is continued for those person in receipt of the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10391/17]