Results 6,521-6,540 of 12,402 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: 281. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the policy in place allowing the automatic disclosure to an adoptee that he or she has a sibling who was also placed for adoption; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52174/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services Provision (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: 282. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the screening in place for adoptees in view of the fact adoptees have no access to their medical backgrounds or genetic information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52175/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I am assuming we will get another round if we have time because I have quite a few questions. I will get to them very quickly. I thank the witnesses for attending. I know the issue of mesh implants was mentioned in the Minister's statement. I echo the constructive engagement we have had and the progress that has been made but I would like to see a date for when the medical cards will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Children's Health Ireland is only now recruiting a consultant. Did Dr. McCarthy not hand in his notice two months ago, in September?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: How far advanced is that process? It takes months to recruit a consultant. Incidentally, I wish the HSE good luck with that project because there are 500 vacancies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Is there an advanced nurse practitioner in post?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: There is one in post and the requirement is for a second one. Has that post been advertised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Has an advertisement been placed for the consultant or the advanced nurse practitioner?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Woods knows it will probably take 12 months to recruit this essential front-line consultant. The post has not been advertised despite the fact that the consultant in question handed in his notice in September. It is hard to believe that this matter is being treated with any degree of urgency. That anything has been done may have more to do with media coverage than anything else. That...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: We look forward to that. I want to raise the issue of overcrowding and associated risks in the Rotunda Hospital. HIQA conducted a review of the Rotunda Hospital which I will not read out in full because, quite frankly, it shames the people on the other side of this room. The issues raised are very serious. HIQA says that the cot spacing between babies is inadequate. It also says that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I ask Mr. Reid to address my first question as to why he has not met representatives of the Rotunda yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: It is not a competition. As I understand it, a request for a meeting was made and it should be granted. That said, I am happy that Mr. Reid has confirmed that he is not avoiding such a meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Woods for that clarification. Again, the issues in the Rotunda are not new but there does not seem to be a massive sense of urgency about addressing them. I welcome the fact that people are now committing to attend meetings that they were always going to attend anyway, apparently. I have a question about the use of debt collection agencies, which I have raised previously. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes, I have the name of the hospital but I do not want to name it because the woman is terrified of being identified-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: She ended up in the private wing of a public hospital. She went in through accident and emergency and was brought up to the private wing. She now has a debt collection agency chasing her. The woman has a medical card and should not have been brought into the private wing. We spoke about similar scenarios when we were discussing women who went for private tests in the context of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: On the broader point-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Sorry Chairman, but Mr. Reid was just about to answer the broader question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I believe the Senator asked about a report. She asked whether those in the Department had it on their desk.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I was just following up as the Senator is not here to do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: When will it be published?