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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 223. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each public hospital to date in 2018 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40341/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (3 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each voluntary hospital to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40342/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (2 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedics at each level who have been hired in each month since January 2017, by unqualified, qualified to paramedic and qualified to advanced paramedic, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39463/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (2 Oct 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job offers made for paramedic posts in each month since January 2017; the offers made to unqualified, qualified to paramedic and qualified to advanced paramedic, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39464/18]

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 15:In page 16, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“(17) (a) This section shall not apply to the sale of alcohol products in a tax-free shop to travellers departing the State. (b) “Tax-free shop” means a tax-free shop within the meaning of Article 14 of Council Directive 2008/118/EC of 16 December 2008 concerning the general arrangements...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The purpose of the amendment is to transpose the requirements seen in pubs around signage and so forth to airside travel. This is essentially what we know as "duty free" in airports. It would remove the requirement for labelling for the airside products. We want to achieve a balance that meets all the public health requirements. We do this by ensuring all the requirements for pubs are met...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 13:In page 14, line 35, after "displayed" to insert ", in both the English and Irish language,".

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 10:In page 14, line 13, after “form” to insert “, in both the English and Irish language”.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I recognise there are strongly held views on this issue around the House and the country. Those who are making their views known are representing what they believe to be the best interests of their constituencies. Fianna Fáil's position is that we are supporting the inclusion in primary legislation of cancer labelling. Why are we taking that position given there are strongly held...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for his detailed response. I will start by addressing a point suggested by Deputy Harty that seeking to have public warnings and public communications in Irish is somehow a sop to political correctness. I do not believe it is. The Irish language is important and we need to take it seriously. We need to recognise there are people who live through Irish, who think,...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 8:In page 13, line 31, after "form" to insert ", in both the English and Irish language". These amendments refer to providing warnings to the public in Irish and English. There are two main reasons for this. One is the position of the Irish language in our society and Constitution. There are many people, and I hope it is a growing number, who live, eat, sleep, dream...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I had an economics professor who used to say that good policy internalises the negative externalities. I had no idea what he was talking about for a very long time, but after a while I got my head around it. What he meant was this. There is a bunch of things we do that have consequences, positive and negative. In the world of economists these are externalities. The problem is that if...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I support the spirit of what Deputy O'Reilly is trying to do. I have discussed it with the Minister in some detail and it has been explained to me that for a bunch of what sound like reasonable and material legal reasons it cannot be done in this way. However, the point raised is incredibly important because one of the things that this Bill does is to try to prevent advertising of alcohol...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy can take 15 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. Holohan and his officials for their time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I will start with the changes that have been proposed to the Bill since the last time it was discussed by the committee. They are to increase the Minister's power to direct investigations. This relates to the tragic case of Ms Thawley in the National Maternity Hospital. Dr. Holohan referred in his opening statement to the interesting judgment in that case. In his legal judgment, the judge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I take Dr. Holohan's point. Obviously, any Minister needs a suitable power to investigate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: According to the judge, the Minister acted in an incompetent, irresponsible and unreasonable way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: In my opinion, this weakens the argument to give the Minister further powers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Obviously, the proposed Bill represents a cultural change for clinicians, doctors, nurses and everyone involved in the clinical world. It is a very welcome change, but it could be a very scary change. A breakdown in the information flow between treating clinicians and the women who were affected was essentially at the heart of the CervicalCheck scandal. For a variety of reasons, the...