Results 20,681-20,700 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Care of the Elderly. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister of State should make sure she crosses at a zebra crossing.

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I will have a look at that.

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I would not mind if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle would not mind. The failure of the Minister to give us a proper date that she will commit to is disturbing. I hope she will find herself able to deliver on this within the next number of weeks. Despite her extensive answer earlier, she did give a commitment that the programme would be launched in January.

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: That is not a word I would ever associate with the Minister.

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I will do my best.

Office for Disability and Mental Health. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Has the office a budget and what role will it have in the spend of the health budget on mental health, disability and elder care?

Hospital Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date investigations (details supplied) into a number of cancer diagnostic scandals will conclude; the reason for the delay in publication of these reports particularly the Dr. Ann O'Doherty report promised by the end of November 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2924/08]

Hospital Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: The greatest health scandal to have hit this country in the last 25 years has been the manner in which women were treated by the breast cancer service in Portlaoise. The Minister was informed of this in 2005 and her response was appalling; she passed the buck and nothing was done with the consequence that 11 women were misdiagnosed and hundreds of women had to go through the worry and mental...

Hospital Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: The question is coming.

Hospital Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I think it is important to set the tone. They remained until the cohort was reached and until it was decided by the HSE — the Minister's invention which she created by legislation and whose ethos has evolved under her — that it was then the time to deal with these people. It seemed to be a case of "It is all right, Mrs. Reilly, you might have a breast lump and in fact, you might have...

Hospital Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: He certainly was not satisfied with any response. There is no doubt about it.

Hospital Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Why did the Minister not say that at the end of November?

Mental Health Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is the policy of the Government to implement the recommendations of A Vision for Change; the reason funding allocated for mental health services has not been spent on those services; the reason moneys realised from the sale of property assets associated with mental hospitals here have not been reinvested in the development of...

Mental Health Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: A Vision for Change recommended the establishment of one child and adolescent mental health team per 50,000 people. In total there should be 78 teams but only 47 teams have been established and of the 47 teams only 60% of their staffing complement is in place. That is appalling, given that there were 3,598 children on waiting lists at the end of 2007, with approximately one third waiting...

Mental Health Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: The question is coming. Last week the Irish Mental Health Commission revealed that almost half of the €50 million allocated for the implementation of A Vision for Change, to which the Minister of State referred, had been spent in other areas. On "Prime Time" the Minister was not able to tell us how much of the €50 million had been spent on mental health. Can the Minister explain why...

Mental Health Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I ask the Minister to give an undertaking, as was given on page 177, chapter 17, of his document, A Vision for Change, that the moneys released will be ring-fenced and that we will not have a situation where the money goes elsewhere and where there are, in St. Ita's in north Dublin because there is no psychiatric admission unit in Beaumont Hospital, 24 patients in a unit with one single room...

Mental Health Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: This is the Cinderella of the health service and it has been ignored.

Mental Health Services. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: A far cry from 80.

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date cervical screening will become available nationally; the reason this was not made available by the end of 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2926/08]

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: I will give a quick background. Fifty years ago in Aberdeen a pilot study was started in this area. Forty years later we undertook a pilot study, in 1999. Here we are nearly ten years later and it is still promised. With the best will in the world, the Minister told us last summer we would have it by the end of the year. She told us in the autumn that we would have it on 1 January. Then...