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- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I did not say that.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I did not say that, though.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: To avoid any doubt, I must state we will not support amendment No. 46, based on its content. We do not want any association with it. It states, "Where it is intended to carry out a termination of pregnancy on a foetus who is twenty weeks' gestation or more, the medical practitioner intending to carry out the termination of pregnancy or another medical practitioner assisting him or her...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: On a point of information, I assure the Deputy that any offence that was expressed by me was very genuine.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: HSE Planning (5 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: "Signed up, bought in and invested", that is certainly not what individual health care workers are saying. With regard to the plan my question was specifically about the status of negotiations. The Minister is saying that he does not think negotiations will be required, that there will be no changes in work practices and if there are no changes in work practices and everything will be as it...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: HSE Planning (5 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I assume the staff are meeting at the national joint council. That is an industrial relations forum. The Minister said that staff have volunteered for change of roster and work practices and have added their names to lists. Could he please advise who is co-ordinating those lists? Is it being done centrally or on a site by site basis? Who advised the Minister of all these volunteers, the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: HSE Planning (5 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: 34. To ask the Minister for Health the status of negotiations between his Department and the representatives of healthcare workers for the rolling out of additional winter measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51000/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: HSE Planning (5 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I note the publication of the winter plan. It was late but I suppose it is a case of better late than never. Other states and jurisdictions publish theirs in September. It is unfortunate that we wait until winter to do so. However, the plan is of no use and will be of no benefit unless there is commitment from the staff involved to engage with all of the changes and to make sure that it...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: HSE Planning (5 Dec 2018)
Louise O'Reilly: I was a member of the emergency task force. It is not an industrial relations forum and the HSE was always very clear with us about that so participation or otherwise does not indicate agreement by any trade union or representative group with regard to what is planned. The Minister is talking about enhanced actions and clinics among other measures. It should be said that we do not just...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: Yes. I am sorry I was not here for the start. I could say I was caught in traffic but I was getting coffee so I might as well be honest. Honesty is the best policy. The Minister of State is welcome. I thank him for appearing before the committee. We have previously commented on the fact the Minister is not available but in the circumstances, and given the lateness of the time we...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: I am specifically asking how that figure was arrived at. The HSE did not reach it but it must have been based on something.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: No, it was not plucked out of the sky or anywhere else. There must have been targets. Someone looked at this and came up with a figure of €346 million, as opposed to €350 million, for example. Perhaps I am being cynical but maybe someone suggested a figure of €350 million and someone else decided to make it €346 million in order to seem more credible.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: Yes, but it has to have come from somewhere.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: No, I have not.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: On that point, the HSE appeared to put a bit of distance between itself and the Department on that decision. My memory of it is that the executive said it was given this target. Someone should have sat down with the HSE to determine if the target was realistic, which we know now was not the case, and how the HSE was going to reach it. Where was it going to find those savings? It is not...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: The demand is created by sick people.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: My question was whether the Minister of State thinks this is a responsible way to fund the health service. I would be surprised if the answer to that is "Yes". I do not think it is responsible to fund it this way and nor does the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: I am referring to funding it from corporation tax receipts and interest. Those sources of funding are not reliable
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: IFAC has said that the health overruns are being masked by unexpected increases in corporation tax revenue and interest.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018) Louise O'Reilly: The budget overruns are being masked.