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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: No, she did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I will check the blacks on that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: -----and I am happy to get that clarification. I am sure Ms O'Friel did not mean to cause offence.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tax Forms (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Med 2 form needs a signature from the spouse of the claimant; the arrangements made to facilitate a claim without this signature in cases in which the claimant and spouse are estranged, for example, in the case of domestic abuse; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Expenditure (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of delivering general practitioner care for those cohorts that are entitled to free general practitioner care, that is, medical card holders, general practitioner visit card holders, persons over 75 years of age, children and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53823/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons directly employed by the HSE to provide home support services. [53824/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing ten directly employed home care workers to provide home support services. [53825/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Information and Communications Technology (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe and cost per year of full implementation of the e-health system. [53826/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Services (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the health service spent on end of life and palliative care in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53827/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the health service spent on care for children with life-limiting conditions in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53828/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Data (19 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of purchasing and staffing one air ambulance to run 24-7, 365 days a year. [53829/18]

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I will not need all that time. I thank Deputy Brassil for bringing this Bill forward. Deputy Brassil and I are members of the Joint Committee on Health. We have had occasion to attend many presentations and hearings on the issue of access to orphan medicines. We have also been approached, as every person in this House probably has, by patients, their families and clinicians on this very...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I will do my very best by talking quickly. The ink was not even dry on the Health Regulation (Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 when we saw a letter from the chief medical officer, CMO, making clear that the three-day period the Government included in the legislation was not recommended by the committee and will, in fact, be four days. This is in direct contradiction to what the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That was my understanding too. I will provide the Taoiseach with a copy of this, because it is very worrying.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (13 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 135. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that Cork University Hospital has only one medical registrar at night due to staff shortages and that the hospital cannot procure a replacement. [52571/18]

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: This Bill seeks to give effect to EU Regulation No. 598/2014, which requires airports over a certain size to appoint a noise regulator. I welcome the people in the Gallery and must say I admire the restraint and patience of those who live beside Dublin Airport because they have been living with a lot of uncertainty for the past few years since planning permission was granted for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It is very difficult for people working in home care, very often on very low rates of pay, to be told on the one hand they have never had it so good and that the economy is booming, and on the other hand that the shillings are not there. It is about priorities. It is very difficult for someone on a very low income to hear about a proposal on tax cuts when the proposal for a modest increase...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The single assessment tool, SAT.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I was asked by a home carer who had been approached to work for 15 minutes.