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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (17 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the reason physiotherapists who were interviewed in 2016 and were placed on the national panel for physiotherapist staff grade in order of merit must now re-interview to be placed behind 2017 and 2018 panellists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17979/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (17 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the 2016 national panel for physiotherapist staff grade is being disbanded while the supplementary panels of the original 2016 panel carried out in 2017 and 2018 will remain in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17980/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (17 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the physiotherapy profession and their representatives in relation to the national panel for physiotherapist staff grade and improvements which could be made to the way in which it operates. [17981/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the length of delays being experienced by a person (details supplied); his plans to alleviate the waiting lists for children in north County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18013/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the alternative options available for a family to access help for their child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18014/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chair and thank Dr. Fulton. I have not had an opportunity to read all of the survey but I have engaged with this issue previously. I am interested in hearing Dr. Fulton's views, specifically, on the language that we use. From what I have researched and what I have come across, we are being told that we should be talking about problem gambling, not necessarily gambling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We need to be careful of the language we use. If one confines it to addiction, one sets the bar quite high and one will miss many people. The results of the drug prevalence survey from 2014-15 was published recently. It conflicts with results from the North. For example, in Dundalk, the rate of problem gambling is 0.8% but 15 miles up the road, in Newry, it is 2.3%. It is ludicrous to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We have done. It does not make any sense to suggest, for people who live so close together, that it would be a problem across the Border and not a problem on this side of Border. Dr. Fulton spoke of the need to prevent targeting, particularly of young people. That is something that we must incorporate into this legislation to try to make it robust. It will not be possible to capture...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Regulation of Gambling Sector: Discussion (17 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: In terms of international best practice, is there anywhere we could start? Is there anywhere outside of this wee island to which we could look because it has made a good start or has got some of this right? The technology is evolving, quite possibly more quickly than the legislation will be able to keep up with. One often hears that from people. People say we will never be able to...

General Practitioner Contractual Reform: Statements (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to speak. This is a deal that was done two weeks ago, so it is unfortunate that I did not have more detail in advance of the debate. I hope in his concluding remarks that the Minister will commit to a longer debate once we have had the opportunity to digest the contents of the agreement. We all know the benefits of primary care. It is a low cost, local service....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Can the Taoiseach indicate when the legislation on exclusion zones will be forthcoming? I saw at the weekend, as I think everyone did - and it is not just this weekend but every weekend - that women are being intimidated when they try to go into their local general practices and that general practitioners are being intimidated by people protesting outside those practices. This is not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Women have a right to access the service.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: They are being prevented from doing so and something must be done.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Thursday’s business is not agreed by Sinn Féin either, for all the reasons outlined. The perception among residents is that the Government is somehow trying to railroad this through and is acting with extreme haste. When we see the legislation on the Order Paper, we can only assume that is the case. We will be objecting to Thursday's Order of Business. It needs to be taken off...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 278. To ask the Minister for Health if staff who have to work overtime due to the fact that they cannot leave patients or a ward without care due to staffing shortages as a result of the recruitment and retention crisis will be paid for that overtime worked in view of recent reports of a HSE recruitment and overtime ban. [17251/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commence minimum unit pricing in the event that the UK is granted an extension to Article 50 of not less than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17533/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 350. To ask the Minister for Health if he will elaborate on his decision to seek a revised Government decision to implement the minimum unit pricing provision after there is more certainty about the exit of the UK from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17534/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 351. To ask the Minister for Health if research has been conducted on the likely scale of cross-Border shopping following the commencement of minimum unit pricing in view of the fact that according to a report (details supplied) the incidence of cross-Border shopping has not increased in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17535/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (16 Apr 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 408. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made regarding the availability of Spinraza in view of the fact a new application has been submitted by a company (details supplied). [17756/19]