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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: With regard to the steering group, there were 12 meetings for which we have the minutes. The assistant secretary general, Ms Conroy, attended ten of them and Mr. Woods attended six. It is clear from what was being discussed that people were starting to get concerned. I presume Mr. Breslin would meet regularly with Ms Conroy, given they work in the same place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Even if it is just the occasional water cooler moment, Mr. Breslin will have seen this woman on an ongoing basis. Did she not say anything to him? It is obvious from the tone of the minutes that concerns were being raised. Would she not have said anything to Mr. Breslin in this regard? She was at ten of those meetings and Mr. Woods was at six. I have two questions. Was this not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: It was just the overall quantum of the amount.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: And the Department obviously did not ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The Department had some awareness that there was an issue but did not ask the extent of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: The finalisation of the process would have happened more than a year after the first issue was raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I asked a question of Mr. Woods. The Chairman exercised a fair amount of leeway with other people and I have one more question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: My final question relates to the minutes of the meeting of 31 May 2018. Point 5 of page 3 stated that MOC noted concerns around the nursing intake to third level education, as the current flow will not generate the required 300 paediatric nurses in 2022. We have had discussions on this but my observation is that, even if this hospital is built, there will not be enough staff to staff it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: If prospective staff members are not in college now, they are not going to be ready.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: Last May, the HSE was not confident that it was going to get the numbers and it is not confident now. As someone looking on, it seems that sufficient attention was not being paid to the detail. There is no additional detail on how many new nurses will be in the system, how many will be recruited, and it is the same with allied health professionals. I understand the witnesses are here to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: At this stage, we would probably accept anything because we have not received anything.

JobPath Programme: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not have long to speak but I urge the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to withdraw the amendment and consider the points being put forward. The Minister cannot call the scheme a success when fewer than 9% of people have sourced jobs that last longer than 12 months. They are not good permanent or decent jobs. They are not jobs that people go looking for. There are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Directives (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the deferral of the offences and the engagement that will happen, but will the Minister reconsider the manner in which the statutory instrument is being enacted? The directive places the responsibility on the corporate entity but the manner in which it will be implemented places much responsibility directly on the pharmacist but does not place enough emphasis on corporate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Directives (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We look forward to working with the Minister to implement the directive and I welcome that he will reflect on the points I made. They are practical points and are not made for any reason other than my belief that it is a little unfair to shift that level of responsibility onto an individual without placing the same level of responsibility on the employer to ensure compliance. Another...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Directives (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 67. To ask the Minister for Health if he is seeking a corporate transfer of responsibility in moving the responsibility for the provisions of the EU falsified medicines directive from the pharmacy owner or proprietor and onto pharmacists and employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5315/19]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: We will be very happy to take the Minister up on the offer of a meeting. We want to see some progress. It is not as if we would have to reinvent the wheel because there are already circumstances in which health services in both jurisdictions are accessible from either side of the Border. It is possible to do this. I do not want to pour cold water on the Minister's commitment, but while we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: -----and one we would like to see removed. As such, I restate Sinn Féin's commitment to work with the Minister to deliver this. I welcome the opportunity to meet him. I hope we can mark some progress at the meeting and put in place a deadline for the conclusion of the negotiations or work that must take place to be able to say with confidence that this will be delivered by a certain date.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 45. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of abortion services for women resident in Northern Ireland further to the enactment of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; when he will deliver on his commitment for free provision for these women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5463/19]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a straightforward question; I want to know the status of the provision of abortion services for women who are resident in the North of Ireland, further to the enactment of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act. When will the Minister for Health deliver on the commitment he gave for the free provision of access for these women?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Abortion Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: For some women the €450 they have to pay to access the service represents a prohibitively expensive barrier they cannot overcome. In 2017, just over 900 women from the North of Ireland travelled for an abortion. The figure is low and I venture that the financial commitment is not huge, but I do not dispute that it is a financial commitment. All of the circumstances that the Minister...