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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 374. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ring-fence some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE Medicines Management Programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for the FreeStyle Libre device that were submitted by individual hospitals for persons with diabetes over 21 years of age; the number approved; the number refused in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; his plans to remove the age restriction on the device; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Outside this building shortly, thousands of women and their partners will be protesting the failure to resolve the harmful maternity hospital restrictions. We are now almost 20 months into the pandemic yet women are labouring alone and seeing their partners leave after a mere hour spent with their newborn child. The demand of the campaigners is to return to pre-Covid circumstances for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not what this is about.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Who is in charge here?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: As the Ceann Comhairle said to me once here, a Deputy is entitled to a reply but not necessarily an answer. We asked what would be done to future-proof and to ensure Dublin Fire Brigade has not only the physical resources it needs but also the manpower and womanpower it will need to do its work. The Minister of State gave a list referring to recruits and the recruitment campaign. I have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Service (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not mean this disrespectfully in any way to the people who sit opposite, but it is regrettable that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is not here to take this Topical Issue. Anyone from the Dublin Fire Brigade who is watching will not be surprised. They have sought a meeting with the Minister. I would be very grateful if the Minister of State could pass on that request directly to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise for missing the first few minutes of the meeting. I was speaking in the Chamber. I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I had a chance to read them prior to the meeting. I echo what has been said. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. The fact we are all speaking about this is good. We need to be clear about what we are speaking about. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Four-Day Working Week: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Excellent. I thank Mr. Barnes for that. It is important by way of context that when we discuss this we discuss the actual benefits not just to the worker but those passed on in terms of productivity. My next point has already been mentioned and I would like to hear from Ms McElwee on it. Clearly there is an issue with regard to the right to disconnect and people being contacted and...

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend my colleague, an Teachta Funchion, not just on this motion but on all the work she has done and continues to do with regard to childcare. The cost of childcare has come up often in my time in this Chamber. It is one of the most recurring issues we discuss week after week. The crisis across the childcare sector has been raised in this House and, indeed, across the airwaves. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (30 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the situation facing many cardiac patients, who are no longer able to access insurance products as a result of their medical condition, particularly after Brexit, given many insurance providers no longer offer services to the Irish market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 339. To ask the Minister for Health the status of any review of eligibility policy for medical services as outlined in Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47237/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the way that patients with progressive, life-limiting conditions will be able to access medical cards in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47238/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Will the Government consider a moratorium?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Eight affordable houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Of eight houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Not many blocks.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Well, fix it then.

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: We are having this discussion in the context of a broader discussion on fuel poverty. I heard one of the Minister's colleagues, a junior Minister, last night, on a show I do not often watch, advise people who cannot afford to heat or light their homes that they can access an exceptional needs payment. Heating your house is not an exceptional need. It should be a basic right. If that is...