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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome Mr. Horan and join Senator Colm Burke in wishing him well in his new appointment. That said, I have serious ideological difficulties with the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the privatisation of the health service by stealth, as well as public money being siphoned off and given directly to the private sector. However, this does not in any way prevent me from wishing Mr. Horan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Does Mr. Horan not accept he is hamstrung in the public sector in the competition to be the best? Money is taken from the public sector and put into the private sector. There are many people who cannot afford to access the private sector and jump the queue in the way that some people do. It is proposed to put money into the private sector where money is top-sliced off for profit and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I may not have made myself clear. The system in Scotland is designed to ensure the constant availability of beds. We have a problem with delayed discharges. Part of the problem is finding a bed in a nursing home. If the vast majority of nursing home beds are provided by the private sector and the State leases a chunk of it, the system is operated by the State. Therefore, there can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Horan might report back to the committee with the findings. It would be very helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It was not intended as an unfair question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: There is no bonus structure attached to it, of which Mr. Horan is aware?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to Medical Scanning Services (31 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witness for his presentation, which I had an opportunity to read. I will not be alone in this, but people contact us regularly about infertility services because they are desperate to have a child. They are so desperate that they will reach out to a stranger like me and share intimate details of their lives which are absolutely heartbreaking. It is very concerning that these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to Medical Scanning Services (31 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The 20-week anomaly scan is an issue Deputy O'Connell and I have raised many times. We are not alone in that. There is a post-code lottery which Professor Daly rightly alluded to. How far are we from being able to train the personnel we have? Professor Daly said diagnostic equipment was getting cheaper, which it is. In terms of being able to provide a 20-week anomaly scan as a matter of...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, Teachta Ó Laoghaire, for sharing his time. I wish to ask the Minister about St. Clare's mother and baby home in Stamullen. It was excluded from the investigation. A man who came to my clinic in Balbriggan two or three weeks ago is still traumatised and has still not recovered. He was born in St. Clare's. It was the site of vaccine trials. There should be...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, on his effective appointment as the new Taoiseach. I am sure it gives great hope to other Fine Gael Deputies who have failed to excel in their ministerial posts and are unwanted by their own membership, to see that failure and unpopularity are not barriers to becoming the leader of Fine Gael. I also congratulate the de factoTánaiste, Deputy...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ----- I come to his attitude to repealing the eighth amendment. In a State where women have virtually no reproductive rights, he has compared women travelling to get medically necessary procedures to a lads' holiday in Las Vegas. In 2010 he said that allowing rape victims to terminate their pregnancies could lead to abortion on demand and still the UN points out that our laws and our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (20 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) into the operation and organisation of QQI; his views on the serious findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27080/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (20 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to implement the findings of a report (details supplied) into the operation and organisation of QQI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27081/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (20 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficult industrial relations environment in QQI; his department's role in the resolution of the causes of this difficult environment as described in a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27082/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (20 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 1005. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation 5.5 of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019; the position regarding the availability of non-invasive diagnostic imaging facilities, in addition to echnocardiography, catheterisation and angiography; the position regarding the availability of investigative and angiographic laboratories; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (20 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 1492. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation 5.1 of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019 in respect of persons with ST elevation myocardial infraction; the status of the development of an emergency medical system to link a network of hospitals having cardiac facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28746/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (20 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 1493. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation 5.2 of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019 in respect of assessments for thrombolysis; the status of the programme to train general practitioners for appropriate roles in pre-hospital emergency care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28747/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (20 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 1494. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation 5.3 of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (20 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 1495. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation 5.4 of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (20 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 1496. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation 5.6 of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019 in respect of the reconfiguration of coronary care units; if a review has taken place of the changing pattern of need and supply for acute cardiac care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28751/17]