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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: The Minister should not oversell it and should be clear. It is not a new GP contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: GPs say it is not a new contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Indeed, but it is not a new GP contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I am, but I will not let this issue slide either. It is not a new GP contract. The Minister pats himself on the back enough. Is he aware that 82 patients were on trolleys last night in University Hospital Limerick?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Yesterday the Minister's boss, the Taoiseach, apologised to the patients who had been left on trolleys. There were 81. Now there are 82. There does not seem to be any change in that regard. The Minister will be aware that the trolley count started when Fianna Fáil was in government. We know that September was a record month and that the number now stands at 82. Does the Minister...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: It is interesting that the Minister is only now looking at that issue. Improvements in transitional care services should have been made a long time ago. There were warnings about all of this when the reconfiguration was carried out against the wishes of the staff. They pointed out what was going to happen and it did. I must also reference my colleague Deputy Maurice Quinlivan who has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I am sure the Deputy does. I see the figures which show that new primary care centres are being opened. I will use an example from my constituency, which I have raised with the Minister many times. There is a primary care centre in Balbriggan and while I keep asking the Minister if it will get additional staff, he keeps telling me it will not and nor is there a plan to put in additional...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Could the Minister take a step back to where these 4,000 additional staff for primary care centres are coming from? These are for the primary care centres the Minister is talking about opening in the short to medium term. Those staff would have to be in college now or there would have to be some plan. If they are not in college now, then they will not be in post in time, and the facilities...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: But they are not in college at the minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: What is the plan for the additional staff? Assuming the current cohort coming through our colleges does not all emigrate, and to be honest the Minister knows they are emigrating, and in the event that the Minister manages to massively improve the retention rates for new graduates, we would still need, at this juncture, to have additional people in college to be able to skill up in that area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I fully appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: That does not really answer my question. If I go back to my constituents in Balbriggan, what will I say to them? Is it more of the same and none of anything different for a while?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: The responses had no reference to including a plan for the relevant facilities, the diagnostic equipment or anything like that. I hear very clearly what has been said, and at some point in the future this may be addressed. I know that time is limited and I have a question on the working group on contraception. Has the Minister received that report? When the Minister receives the report,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I am sure Mr. Breslin has a raft of feminist convictions, but that is not the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I made an observation that I believe it was something of an own goal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: It is really amusing to see the lads bickering over which of them made a bigger hames of the health service. It has a touch of the old Daz and Surf off it, to my mind.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: We could be here all day debating that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: We would also have to talk about partition and we all know Fine Gael does not want to talk about that. With regard to Limerick, the Minister was talking about the additional beds and the building. Just in terms of this winter, how many of those beds are going to be open, if any? In the absence of those beds being open, what is being done to move the patients in the short term? In the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: I could help the Minister with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes, it was hovering about 50%, I think.