Results 20,221-20,240 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: I did not. I fought to retain it.

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: How many did the NTPF treat in November and December? The money ran out.

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: That is hardly an accolade. May I ask a supplementary question?

Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: Some 4,136 children are waiting on average 18 months for speech and language services, 4,062 children in the HSE for Dublin north east await orthodontic treatment and 3,596 children await psychological assessment countrywide, a third of whom have waited longer than 12 months. There are enormously long waiting lists for occupational and physical therapy and home help. There is the primary...

Health Service Staff. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to ensure administrative staffing levels within the Health Service Executive will be reduced so that resources will be devoted to front line services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22488/08]

Health Service Staff. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: I will do my best. I remind the Minister that she did not read out the full paragraph of the report, as follows: "The external report found that while the number of clerical, administrative and managerial staff compared favourably with those in similarly public owned health services in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, there were too many staff at senior level." These are our famous...

Health Service Staff. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: It can be negotiated beforehand.

Health Service Staff. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: How many have we got? It is playing semantics to say they are not new posts. They are new posts. That has been the whole problem. People are being progressed up through the system into these senior management positions and they have not got——

Health Service Staff. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: Where is the——

Health Service Staff. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister's own report referred to an ethos of administration and no ethos of management. She is perpetuating this and refusing to address the issue. Will she tell us how many grade eights there are now?

Health Service Staff. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: There were 714 the last time we asked the Minister.

Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: They already have.

Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: I do likewise.

Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: I concur with the previous two speakers. There are precedents for clinical supervision. A newly qualified doctor has to serve an intern year under full supervision before being considered a fully fledged professional or continuing on to post-graduate training. The Taoiseach was unwise to use that example. As I noted earlier, 4,136 Dublin children are waiting an average of 18 months for...

Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: He is achieving a status similar to that of papal infallibility.

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: I wish to raise three matters. Given that the economy is taking a downturn and the employment possibilities that would be created by a new port at Bremore, will the Tánaiste advise us of the state of the harbours Bill and when it will come to the House? As a woman of compassion, I am sure the Tánaiste will be concerned at the fact that many people on medical cards cannot get a dentist on...

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: Hold on, I am sorry, but it is. She was told to travel to Carlow from south Dublin by the Health Service Executive.

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: I refer to the dentists Bill. When will the Bill come to the House and will it address this worsening situation whereby dentists do not take medical card patients?

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: Patients with medical cards find that it is becoming impossible to get a dentist. My last question is whether there are plans to introduce legislation to regulate laser eye clinics that are springing up all over the country.

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

James Reilly: Grave concern has been expressed by many hospital staff because of the problems that people have suffered as a consequence of treatment there.