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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: In many cases, a group of representatives such as this is preaching to the converted. In the future, when such a group appears before the committee, it would be good if there was somebody who could follow up on the points raised and work on them. It is a lesson for us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Yes, to say hello.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Yes, I agree. In the southern part of Ireland there is no dedicated specialist medical rehabilitation service for people with neurological conditions. Unfortunately, most matters in life are Dublin-centred, but in the case of something as important as this, it is disappointing that there is nothing available in the south of the country. What is needed in the south of the country? I had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: The location could be Cork.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Our guests will be aware of the chronic lack of investment in these services across the board. We have only half of the recommended number of specialist rehabilitation beds for a population of Ireland's size. We also have the lowest number of consultants in rehabilitation medicine in Europe, which, again, is very disappointing. I have a few questions for the representatives of the Alcohol...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Has a population needs analysis been carried out as part of Sláintecare?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Was this under Sláintecare?

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I wish to refer specifically to the ongoing issue of rural transport. I know I have been beating this drum for quite so time now. The fact remains that rural Ireland is not serviced by an adequate system not to mention the urgent need for wheelchair-accessible transport or our European and international obligations. Those travelling to Cork city each morning from either the Bantry or the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (16 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 360. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the 100 new therapy posts to address assessment-of-need waiting lists for children with disabilities announced in budget 2019; the number who have been recruited; the locations to which the recruits have been assigned by local health area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17613/19]

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: The gravity of the provisions as set out in this Bill are all the more real when one considers that after Friday the UK could, although unlikely, be considered one of the so-called third countries referred to in the Bill. Tonight will tell a lot in that regard. The movement of health professionals between the UK and Ireland is significant and if the reporting or monitoring of medical...

Building the Housing of the Future: Motion [Private Members] (10 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: It seems as though we are here week after week discussing the issue of housing and homelessness in circumstances where there has been no real progress in this area over the lifetime of this Government. After the launch of six separate plans by this Government, 130,000 people are in need of permanent social housing, more than 10,000 people are homeless, a whole generation are facing the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Data (10 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 115. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists employed in each CHO; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [16800/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Data (10 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 116. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists employed in each CHO; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [16801/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: My question is for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, and the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Murphy, but maybe the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy English, might be able to answer it. Will the concerns, of which there are many, of the local people in Castletownshend be taken into...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: The decisions must take into account the concerns of the people there.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Physiotherapy Provision (4 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 127. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the physiotherapy waiting list; the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively; and the number waiting aged 0 to four, five to 17, 18 to 64 and more than 65 years, respectively, by each category in each local healthcare area at the end of March 2019 or the latest date available, in tabular form....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (4 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children at the end of March 2019 or the latest date available awaiting a first assessment from the HSE under the Disability Act 2005 by LHO area, in tabular form. [15909/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (4 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list at the end of March 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by local health area, in tabular form. [15910/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (4 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the speech and language therapy initial treatment waiting list at the end of March 2019 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by local health area in tabular form. [15911/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists (4 Apr 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the speech and language therapy further treatment waiting list at the end of March 2019 or the latest date available; and the numbers waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, by local health area, in tabular form. [15912/19]