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Nurses' Dispute: Statements (3 Apr 2007)

Liz McManus: ...often be stressful and inadequate. It is not fair on patients or nurses to have to continue dealing with conditions the Government has failed to address. Overcrowding in hospitals, the extent of MRSA infection and the fact there is an insufficient number of step-down beds, which leads to beds not being appropriately occupied, are unfair to patients and to the staff looking after them....

Seanad: Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (3 Apr 2007)

Fergal Browne: ...Galway. I do not see a problem with it. If the right people are on the board it can make a great difference. I will not be a hypocrite. Every day in the Oireachtas I complain about the rate of MRSA in hospitals. I am delighted to be involved with the group MRSA and Families. I attended its first public meeting which was held in Kilkenny and have been with it ever since. I travelled...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Children: MRSA Incidence (29 Mar 2007)

Bernard Durkan: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the results of her efforts and associated costs to date in combating MRSA; the number of hospitals or institutions deemed to be entirely free from such infection; if she has identified the institutions with the greatest incidents and the degree to which the issue has been addressed at such locations; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Mar 2007)

Jimmy Deenihan: ...156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will appoint a microbiologist at Kerry General Hospital in view of the winter vomiting bug there at the moment and the high levels of MRSA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12138/07]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (28 Mar 2007)

Mary Upton: ...) in Dublin 10 refused a place in a nursing home on behalf of their son; and if she will provide written evidence that the nursing home accepts patients who need to be fed through a peg and have MRSA. [12118/07]

Seanad: Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2007) See 1 other result from this debate

Joanna Tuffy: ...interview given by an Irish priest who had come home to Ireland on holiday. What he said echoed much of what I hear when I knock on doors and talk to people about the health system, the issue of MRSA, etc. While the priest to whom I refer was in Ireland, his sister fell ill and had to be admitted to hospital for treatment. When in hospital, she unfortunately contracted MRSA. Following...

Pharmacy Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Murphy: ...of these medicines is seized by customs officials when they are shipped in. It is important to identify trends such as the link between over-prescribing of antibiotics and the incidence of the MRSA superbug. While it may not yet have caused an epidemic, we must gather information on this link to control the problem. To this end, the type of illnesses included on the long-term illness...

Seanad: Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (23 Mar 2007)

Paul Coghlan: ...it does not put the patient at the centre of health services. How could we possibly support it? After the recent disastrous failures in the health service, such as the scandal at Leas Cross, the MRSA crisis, deficiencies in hospital hygiene and people left waiting on trolleys in accident and emergency departments, patient protection should be our number one priority, but that is not the...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (22 Mar 2007)

Mary Upton: ...) in Dublin 10 refused a place in a nursing home on behalf of their son; and if she will provide written evidence that the nursing home accepts patients who need to be fed through a peg or who have MRSA. [10929/07]

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Mar 2007) See 6 other results from this debate

Fergal Browne: ...should not be taking them and that half the people who were not on them, should be. She has spoken at length about the overuse of antibiotics, particularly at a time when she is in trouble over MRSA.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2007)

Pat Rabbitte: ...the Taoiseach believes the people at Killsallaghan have the same view as the people of Castlerea, he should make one of his flying visits to the area. He moves around the country faster than the MRSA bug. The Taoiseach claims to defend this decision, which is such a manifest waste of money he can send out his very sincere Minister for Social and Family Affairs yesterday to lecture this...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (20 Mar 2007) See 2 other results from this answer

Paudge Connolly: Question 493: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a leaked Health Service Executive report indicating that as many as 250 people annually die from MRSA contracted in Irish hospitals, despite virtually no such fatalities being properly attributable to the hospital acquired infection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10367/07]

Health Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (20 Mar 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...members of the Irish Nurses Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association. The public hospital system is clearly in a deepening crisis, the primary care strategy has been virtually abandoned, MRSA is endemic and the HSE is being used to implement the privatisation of services through what can only be described as the infamous co-location project, which is very much the baby of the...

Seanad: Pharmacy Bill 2007: Second Stage (20 Mar 2007) See 1 other result from this debate

Terry Leyden: ...incentive for a medical practitioner to prescribe cheaper, generic drugs if a pharmacy is attached to the practice nor is there any incentive not to prescribe drugs at all. As the Minister knows, MRSA prompted an over-prescription of antibiotics, which were given out like smarties because everybody who went in felt they had to come out with a prescription.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2007) See 1 other result from this debate

Fergal Browne: ...hygiene. Is it not a pity that the same standards do not apply to our hospitals? Two weeks ago we heard of a case where a surgeon performed an operation on a patient, unaware that the patient had MRSA. The hospital had not been informed of it when the patient was transferred there from another hospital. Last weekend, newspapers reported that an autopsy could not be carried out on a man...

Medical Practitioners Bill 2007: Second Stage (23 Feb 2007) See 3 other results from this debate

Bernard Durkan: ...in full, otherwise the institution would have been closed down. If the standards and rules do not apply it is quite in order to close an institution. I have been advised by some people that MRSA is very difficult to control. I disagree and remind the House that simple procedures of hygiene which are enforced around the clock will control it. However, there is no longer an emphasis on...

Health Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2007) See 2 other results from this debate

Martin Ferris: ...such a programme is made available in this country. When will this Government and the Minister for Health and Children finally admit the seriousness of the problem with hospital infections such as MRSA? Why are they afraid to admit the extent of the problem? Is it because they truly believe it is not that bad, or has it more to do with hospitals being chronically overcrowded,...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Feb 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: .... The Government needs to answer many questions on how it handled the fall-out from the sale of BUPA Ireland. It is obvious that many people have questions about the Government's handling of the MRSA crisis and the ongoing problems with accident and emergency services. There is no area of the health service in which delivery matches the type of service that is required. The Minister,...

Seanad: Health Service Reform: Statements (21 Feb 2007) See 3 other results from this debate

Brendan Ryan: ...down that road. If the market model does not work, what are we to do? I do not dispute that things have improved in some areas and everybody acknowledges that inside the hospital system, despite MRSA, the quality of medical care is as good as one could ask for. I know affluent people abroad who are able to pay for high quality private care where they live but return to Ireland to give...

Hospital Acquired Infections. (20 Feb 2007) See 11 other results from this debate

Simon Coveney: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that MRSA is coming under control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6222/07]