Results 1,081-1,100 of 12,424 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is that because what is measured is the properly completed applications? The delay is often caused by missing paperwork. They are only measuring when all the legwork has been done. I am sure that the Minister recognises that many of the problems, particularly those referenced by Deputy Murphy O'Mahony with regard to parents filling out the paperwork, are not caused by the paperwork going...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I am looking at the note we were given and trying to match it up to the figures. Under the heading of social inclusion, there is substance misuse, opioid substitution and homelessness. I might be missing it but there is no detailed breakdown of the services. It is all very well to say social exclusion is a problem. We could agree on that eight days a week. The issue is knowing exactly...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I sincerely hope the Minister does. If he lets me in, I will support him. Deputy Durkan makes a very valid point about early intervention. It is regrettable that the funding for Young Ballymun was cut. That is only a statement; I would like an answer specifically to my question.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The mobile screening unit will have its work cut out for it with all of the groups that have been identified. How many staff will be working in the unit and what services will it be offering? Will they include physical and mental health screening or will it solely be physical screening? Will children be catered for? How many visits does the Minister anticipate will be made to the unit?...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It is important that both physical and mental health issues be addressed for children, adolescents and adults. We cannot have a one-size-fits-all approach. The unit cannot just rock up to one of the reception centres unless it is offering services to the entire community. There are sections of the community that are already being failed and we will be adding insult to injury if we pretend...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: If we keep going the way we are, we will lose many GPs to the Dáil. I dissociate myself from the remarks made about ageing GPs. The Chairman is young at heart.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, absolutely.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: As I am trying to match the detailed note with the other documentation, please forgive me if I have missed something. I am interested in the community intervention teams, in particular, and can see that the funding for them has increased. Will the Minister give us a breakdown of the funding allocated across outsourced, direct public and private services?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That is fine. Regarding primary care services in general, we can see that there has been an increase in the number of GP trainees. I concur with what was said about salaried GPs being directly employed by the HSE. How many additional staff will be provided in this area? I can see that there is an increase in the target for the number of attendances, but specifically, how many additional...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I dispute that.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I asked for the geographic and the public-private breakdown in respect of it.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Regarding the increase in the number of home-help hours - while increasing, it will not go up by a great deal - can the Minister give a breakdown between the public-private and voluntary providers? I understand that when the tender process for the provision of those services is concluded, the individual health agencies will have their preferred providers and they will have to select from...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise for interrupting, but I want to know for how many elderly people the single assessment tool was used last year, for how many people it will be used and the grades and categories of staff who will be involved in using it.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: There will certainly be a willingness on the part of home helps to do so. I represented them for years. They were looking for regulation from the Minister's predecessors. They are more than willing to put themselves on a more secure footing because it can be a precarious form of employment when it should not be. It is an area that we can definitely say is going to grow. How many...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: My information was that packages were not delivered, but, again, I am happy to be corrected.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: As I understand it, a dispute threatened in the National Ambulance Service last year. It related to some reports, one of which the Minister has referenced; I understand there are two reports. As part of the settlement of that dispute, NAS indicated that it was going to go abroad to try to recruit people and that it had been given a licence to do so - I think that was the term used although...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: We would like to think it is all about consistency.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I sincerely hope the industrial action does not materialise before that report is received. It would be helpful to those people facing the prospect of industrial action - it is not something they would do lightly – to hear of the willingness to resolve the matter and keep DFB as an integral part of the ambulance and paramedic service provision for the people of Dublin. The Minister...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Turning to an earlier discussion I have just had to leave to take a phone call and I had a quick squint at the newspapers. It appears that the operation for the young woman who was on "The Late Late Show", Megan Halvey-Ryan, due for 9 March, has now been cancelled as confirmed by her mother Sharon. I wonder about the extent to which we are in a room listening to figures - and with respect,...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It was not my intention either, it was just that it came up and it is relevant because we had been discussing scoliosis specifically.