Results 20,521-20,540 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly
- Departmental Reports. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: That was a designated centre.
- Departmental Reports. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: It is dysfunctional.
- Departmental Reports. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: The health boards would have done a better job.
- Ambulance Service. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, with regard to the recent decision by ambulance staff to vote for industrial action, she is truly committed to the development and expansion of a national ambulance service or if it is her intention to privatise the paramedic sector; if not, the way she plans to develop the national ambulance service and the Dublin Fire Brigade...
- Ambulance Service. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Dublin Fire Brigade which has just 13 ambulances had 12 ambulances 20 years ago when the population of Dublin was at least one third less than it is now. It has gained just one ambulance to cater for approximately 200,000 additional people. Between 200 and 300 emergency calls are backed up at any given time. On 18 January 2007, 60% of Dublin Fire Brigade's ambulances which cover acute 999...
- Ambulance Service. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Will all the ambulances be operated by Dublin Fire Brigade?
- Ambulance Service. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: I stand over my statement that on a Sunday morning in May last year, before the general election, a man who collapsed near Rush had to wait 40 minutes for an ambulance. I was told that the delay happened because four ambulances were tied up at Beaumont Hospital. If the Minister cannot answer the question I asked about Dublin Fire Brigade today, will she communicate with me in that regard at...
- Mental Health Facilities. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: I am glad to hear a cost-benefit analysis is being done. Was a cost-benefit analysis done before the site was bought, given the extraordinary sum which was paid for it? I had hoped the Minister and the Minister of State would have taken on board the concerns of the professionals involved in the service, outside professionals and voluntary groups and their dismay at the thought that...
- Mental Health Facilities. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Will the Minister of State clarify the position?
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: The Minister of State's reply is completely unsatisfactory. It is completely unacceptable that in 2008 we are dependent on volunteers and volunteer staff members to be available, on a haphazard basis, to assist in interpreting for people with hearing difficulties. Surely there are not so many hospitals that we cannot appoint to them properly accredited people to act as interpreters. The...
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: The Minister is reading out gobbledegook provided by officials at the Department of Health and Children. What is an access officer? We want interpreters to be appointed in order that patients might have their consultations and clinical examinations carried out in a meaningful fashion in order that people will not be misinformed and to avoid misunderstandings. Will the Minister of State...
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: That is very useful.
- Hospital Staff. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: The Minister announced the agreement on the contract, to great fanfare, a couple of months ago. What has happened in the interim? Why is the IHCA of the view that nothing meaningful has occurred? Is it possible that a new contract will not come into being in 2008 and that the HSE will not, therefore, employ any new consultants, thus avoiding the â¬300 million shortfall it faces in the...
- Hospital Staff. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: There is funding for only 20.
- Hospital Staff. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: If there are 6,000 hospital doctors comprising 2,000 consultants and 4,000 non-consultant hospital doctors, which will change to 4,000 consultants, the pay equivalents do not stack up. Junior hospital doctors cost so much only because of the inordinate overtime they do, up to 100 hours per week. I doubt that is envisaged in the new consultant contract, so it will never be a 1:1 or even 1:2...
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: I must refer to the Minister's comments on general practice. It is a great shame, given that she mentioned the good work done by GPs, that the funding for GP training this year was pulled and the 75 extra places so badly needed to train doctors of the future will not now be available. In light of the PPARS debacle and the Comptroller and Auditor General's report for last year, which...
- Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: It is not happening under the current one.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: I thank the Minister for that response, which is clearly straight out of God knows what. The reality is that Beaumont Hospital was built 24 years ago and a psychiatric outpatient and inpatient unit was to be located therein. The proposed unit was taken over to contain the overflow of patients from medical and surgical beds and, subsequently, when that problem was resolved, it was used to...
- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: We do not have it.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Mar 2008)
James Reilly: Why did the original project not proceed? Why the change?