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Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: The Minister did not answer my previous question but, hopefully, she will answer this. The reason I have opposed many of her reforms is she tends to undertake them back to front, as is the case with this scheme. Having removed 500 beds from the system last year and with plans to remove 600 this year, the Minister is still talking about these much vaunted hospitals. She is not shy about...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Answer the question.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I do not want the history to this. When will the beds be available?

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I know the facts. When will the beds be available?

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: That is not an answer.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: The Minister should eliminate delayed discharges by opening facilities in the community to allow those patients to be discharged because the guts of 1,000 beds would be available in the morning. She did not answer the question. She stated planning permission has been granted and contacts signed for a number of these projects. When will the first beds be available? If she cannot say, she...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Answer the question.

Hospital Services. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, given the findings of the national report on traumatic brain Injury (details supplied), her views on whether the current system is putting patients' lives at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6948/09]

Hospital Services. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: We have only ten neurosurgeons, which is the lowest in Europe. I was in Belfast two days ago and was told that Northern Ireland had 14 with a population one third of ours. That may or may not be accurate. I have a personal knowledge of this in that a friend and colleague of mine with a brain tumour waited four weeks to get into Beaumont Hospital. I had a patient from Wexford who last year...

Hospital Services. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: If we were being honest we would both accept that there is a major deficit. It might be too kind to call it a pressure point. When will the new neurosurgeons take up their posts? Will it be this year and if so on what date? As we both know, after approving a post, recruiting can take anything up to 18 months.

Hospital Staff. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I thank the Minister for her reply. Notwithstanding the industrial relations issues with non-consultant hospital doctors, I am concerned at the plan to take up the slack. Many doctors are working extraordinary hours — up to 80 a week. If such doctors are now going to be working 48 hours, where are the additional staff to take up that slack? I certainly do not approve of either the...

Hospital Staff. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: May I ask a final supplementary question for clarification?

Hospital Staff. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: How many new consultants will be appointed this year? When I say, "new", I do not mean people who are new to the job, rather I mean additional posts. How many additional posts will be filled this year?

Clinical Indemnity Scheme. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: The legal costs of the average catastrophic injury case, such as one involving cerebral palsy, amount to approximately €1 million. This is a particularly relevant issue. From my general practice, I know that vaccination is the most dangerous thing that general practitioners do because of untoward effects, which are rare but possible. Why is it the case that, the higher the award to the...

Clinical Indemnity Scheme. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: For that reason I was careful to refer to childhood vaccinations specifically, not to people receiving travel vaccinations. Will the Minister focus on her plans or other initiatives to address the plaintiff's legal fees?

Health Services. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish the Health Service Executive Health Information and Quality Authority and social services inspectorate reports on hostels for unaccompanied migrant children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6686/09]

Health Services. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Does the Minister of State not accept the imperative to have an inspectorate of such hostels to protect the most vulnerable children in our society? This is particularly true given that 22 children went missing last year. Although the Minister of State noted that this was a reduction, there also has been a significant reduction in the number of children coming here.

Health Service Staff. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: To put this issue in context, I met nursing representatives yesterday, who told me that in the last 18 months approximately 2,700 nurses have left the system. This may not represent the loss of 2,700 whole-time equivalent posts but it is nonetheless 2,700 people. How many managers and administrators have gone in that time? The Minister's answer was not greatly informative. How many health...

Health Service Staff. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Deputy Jan O'Sullivan has put her finger on the vital issue. There has been much talk about redundancies in the wake of the general outcry about what is perceived as the enormous level of administration within the Health Service Executive while, at the same time, front line services are under such pressure. No matter what the Minister tells us in this regard, we hear every day about people...

Health Service Staff. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I am sure the Minister accepts that she must play an integral part in a proposed redundancy scheme, even if the Minister for Finance is involved. Surely, therefore, she should be in a position to indicate when the first redundancies will take place.