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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That is where my issue lies. We know some countries compare more favourably for all sorts of things. Saying that a performance is the same as an emerging economy jurisdiction is not the same as saying it is of a sufficiently high standard. If we consider ourselves to have a high standard, should we compare ourselves with country A which has relatively low standards and all the labs perform...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Nonetheless, on the basis of that, Dr. Scally was able to ascertain confidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome both the witnesses and wish them the very best in their roles. Mr. Devane referred to the issues of access and capacity. The first recruitment moratorium was introduced in the HSE 12 years ago. By way of context, I happened to be a trade union organiser at the time, and we were engaged in an industrial dispute with the HSE about what the Government of the day was doing in with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: They are the HSE's best asset.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: That is welcome. I will give my view and I am not suggesting for a moment that Mr. Devane shares it. The Government's commitment to Sláintecare has been fairly weak. The appointment is very welcome but the money put towards it indicates there is no massive interest in implementing it, notwithstanding the cross-party support for it. Sláintecare needs to be driven from the very top...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: If private care is carried out in a public hospital, access is restricted by necessity. In cases where access is restricted, does Mr. Devane see it as his role to be proactive in ensuring that private care moves out of the public system? I cannot envisage any scenario where private activity being carried out in a public hospital will not interfere with public access. Let us start with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The Sláintecare strategy says that this is what we are going to do and we will do it until the day we say we are not going to do it, for the reasons the Deputy implies. We have to make sure that the €16 billion of taxpayers' money which is being spent is used as effectively as possible. That has to be the starting point for everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise. I have to leave.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: My intervention was on a practical procedural matter. As the Minister has indicated he will liaise with the Deputies who put forward those amendments, I ask that it would be shared with members in a timely manner to give those of us who will be voting an opportunity to study them. My intention is to support the amendments, in that the Minister has accepted the spirit of them, but the hope...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I indicated my concerns when we discussed this issue previously. This was one such concern. I also said it was not about being the one to propose the amendment or "winning" when it came to chalking up amendments. It is about getting it right. Access is key. We must deal with anything that will act as a barrier to access. We all know that if we want to ensure something will go on for a...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Am I correct that the hearing will be in public if that is what the woman wants and the tribunal will not be able to exercise a veto? Perhaps I am phrasing it the wrong way.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Will evidence be given at the tribunal that the tribunal will insist be given in private even in a scenario where the woman might want it in public?

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Okay.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: My concern is the opposite way around. I have to say that given what they will be speaking about I suspect the number will be small, if any. A woman may wish to have the hearing held in public but the tribunal may refuse. Is there a form of adjudication for this?

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I know.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It would only be if there is an appeal mechanism or with regard to how it is determined. To be straight with the Minister, I do not envisage there will be very many in this scenario-----

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: -----but it is a concern that was raised with me. We know what we are talking about and we know what was done to these women. It is a question of stating that if this is their choice, nobody should exercise a veto over it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (2 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: If we are going back over old history, obviously I will refer to the billboard campaign of the Minister's party on ending the scandal of patients on trolleys. How is that working out? It is not going terribly well.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (2 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I will take on board what the Minister said in regard to a policy from seven years ago and I will remind him that it is 2019. We have a recruitment and retention crisis among consultants, which the Care Can't Wait campaign by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA, is highlighting. My figures tell me we have 480 consultant vacancies across the State, which is an increase in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (2 Jul 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It is 2019.