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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a health centre (details supplied) in County Waterford; if ownership of the facility remains with the HSE; when general practitioner services will be reinstated in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6439/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a facility (details supplied) County Waterford; the ownership status of the facility; when general practitioner services will be reinstated in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6440/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (12 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent public health nurses operating in the Dungarvan and Lismore municipal district or the closest corresponding HSE area of operations; if the full allocation of positions is filled; the number of public health nurses attached to each health centre in the district; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6441/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (12 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the level of emergency ambulance provision in the Dungarvan and Lismore municipal district or closest corresponding HSE area of operations; if a needs assessment has been carried out; the way in which the allocation corresponds to need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6442/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Will the Minister tell the House if he believes it is credible that this information was known by senior people in the Department of Health and kept from the Minister? Do any of the Ministers on the Government benches today believe that this stacks up? Do any of them want to answer this? Will they stand up and say they believe this has credibility? This is beyond a joke at this stage....

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I urge the Government to give up this attitude because it is not going to get anyone anywhere and it is not going to resolve the dispute. Does it accept that without pay on the negotiating table, this dispute cannot be resolved? Will the Ministers commit to making a telephone call because it is very easy to come in here and talk about patient safety? By the way, the Government's record on...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: There is no sense in going to the Labour Court or anywhere else unless the signal comes from Government to say that pay-----

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The purpose of that statement is not lost on people. It was more pathetic spin from the Government. It had the opposite effect to the one intended by the Government. The Government should be under no illusions. These men and women have the support of the public and most people here. Will the Ministers apologise for issuing that press statement? Do they accept that it was more than...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: As the Minister knows, I am a former trade union official and am also the daughter of a trade union official. I have been a trade unionist all of my life and was very proud to stand on the picket line with nurses and midwives this morning at Beaumont Hospital. They gave me a number of messages, one of which is a badge for the Minister which reads "Save Staff". I do not imagine that the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Refurbishment (7 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for works on Rush Garda station; the date the station is scheduled to be reopened by; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4361/19]

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: To clarify, I asked what exactly had been done before the offer was made to every woman and whether steps were taken to inject that capacity into the system. My point on outsourcing was that it was a political decision, albeit not made by the Minister's Government. It was a political not a clinical decision. Regardless of what is in the Scally report, therefore, we have never seen any...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I have no objection to that but if we are not going to have a back-and-forth-----

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: -----very specific questions have been asked.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: During the course of our contributions we have all asked questions. The Minister has been taking notes and if the Minister is confident to go ahead then I am happy to also cede my time on the basis that we get our questions answered.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sharing time with Deputy Ó Caoláin. I thank those women and their families who came forward. I remind the House that the State wanted Vicky Phelan to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Because that non-disclosure agreement was resisted, information came into the public domain. Now everybody says we all are in favour of such information always being in the public domain but...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: On 5 December, the Minister told us he was informed by the Department of Health that this issue had arisen and that the HSE was establishing the facts. He then received subsequent interim updates, pending the completion of the work of the expert clinical team and the final confirmation.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: As I said yesterday, the National Association of General Practitioners, NAGP, wrote to the Minister to outline the backlog in August of last year. That was a fairly strongly worded letter that came from Maitiú Ó Tuathail of the NAGP. However, it does not appear that the Department or the Minister's office acted on the concerns that were raised therein. There are four months...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Once awareness of an issue like cervical cancer is raised, notwithstanding the problems, demand is going to go up. That was already known, yet it does appear that no work was done to ensure that the capacity existed. It was very easy to see that there was going to be an increase in demand yet it seems no work was done to ensure that the extra capacity was added. Extra capacity was going to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Grievance Procedures (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if constructive criticism by an employee in the public sector, which is in the interest of addressing failures within a public sector workplace, is viewed in the same manner as a whistleblower; the action an employee can take if their concerns are dealt with in a persecutory manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5812/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Code of Conduct (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date from which the present Civil Service code dates; his views on whether such codes require updating every few years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5813/19]