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Written Answers — Department of Health: Debt Collection (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 48. To ask the Minister for Health if he will liaise with hospitals to ensure they do not use debt collection agencies to recover emergency department and hospital charges. [40976/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 87. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the necessary staff have not been recruited to ensure that the paediatric outpatient department and urgent care centre at Connolly Hospital can be operational from 8 a.m. until midnight, seven days a week, as was previously committed; and when the full staff complement will be in place. [40977/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (10 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 96. To ask the Minister for Health if the establishment of a day hospital in Swords, County Dublin will be considered. [40979/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The health service is in a perpetual state of crisis. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Jim Daly, knows that; I know it; we all know it. We see it every day in our advice clinics and read about it every day in the newspapers. It started a long time before the Government had the really convenient excuse of Brexit which it blames for everything that goes wrong. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The issue here is a fairly serious one inasmuch as it raises further questions. I have spoke to Ms Claire Healy as well. She should not have been obliged to talk to politicians. It should have been dealt with. We need to get Dr. Lorraine Doherty back in because there are questions to be asked. For example, one of the excuses offered as to why there may have been an issue with tracking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: There is an issue regarding movement from the public system to the private system. I spoke to a woman who had her smear test done privately and it showed that she needed an urgent intervention. However, because she had a test done on the public system in the previous year which was clear, she could not get back into the system as an urgent case, though her GP tried very hard to do so. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: There is no consistency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We should heavily emphasise that she should reply to the committee within a week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: He said that to me, but he never got back to me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The initial request was made by me and Deputy Bríd Smith, and possibly others. The issue has been raised countless times. Each time we raise it, including directly with the Minister, we are told that everything is grand and that the information will be provided very quickly. It still has not been provided. It has been sought for years. The HSE is well aware that the information we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We should write to both, to be on the safe side. We should definitely write to CervicalCheck requesting a full breakdown, including dates. We need meaningful information. The Chair read the report provided. There is nothing in it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for attending. I would not describe myself as a nerd but I understand work and industrial relations because that is the way I made my living for a while. I will get on to those matters fairly quickly but page 1 of the witnesses' statement refers to fitness to practise inquiries and the way complaints are dealt with in accordance with rules and fair procedures. I refer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I referred specifically to a matter that was raised in the witnesses' opening statement. It is my intention to follow up this case with the Minister. I have one question to put.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand that. The witnesses may decline to answer. I have one question with regard to the issue of fair procedures. It relates to where someone can go following a complaint being received.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The issue was raised in the opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I believe the Chairman is being unfair but I will not pursue the matter because I do not wish to be vexatious or contentious. I will pursue the matter, however. We will stick to issues of workforce planning. That is fair. Dr. Doyle indicated that the average age of doctors is 44.5 years. Is the average age increasing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am most interested in GPs. I am conscious that there is a very young GP in the room with us, although I am not referring in any way to the Chairman. I had a friend who used to say averages tell us nothing because if one puts one foot in a bucket of ice and the other in a bucket of boiling water, on average, one's temperature will be fine. However, in this instance, the averages or trends...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That would be helpful, if only to inform where we need to direct efforts to try to address the issue. Clearly, if the average age among a particular cohort is increasing, it would indicate a problem in a particular area. Dr. Doyle indicated that doctors believe they are not adequately appreciated and valued. As I said, I am not a nerd but I know something about work. Nothing says I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I share that view. It does not matter how many training courses are put in place.