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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Excellent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I am ecstatic, Chairman. I am a happy person.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Deputy Bernard J. Durkan is right that overruns are not new in the health service. Denying that there are overruns is new, as is pretending that they are not recurring. I can play the game of which previous Government made the biggest mess of the health service, but it will not profit us much. I asked the Minister how the overruns were related to recurring costs. There is a difference...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Was Mr. O'Brien right? Were his figures correct? Were they exactly right or roughly correct? Are the actual figures worse? Is it the Minister's position that there are recurring overspends and that there is not a single incident which places unprecedented pressure on the health service? Deputy Bernard J. Durkan was also right to say patients had to be at the centre of health services,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Duffy has acknowledged that there should be further engagement at some point . That is grand, but does the Minister not accept that the time might be now? The recruitment and retention crisis is happening now. We are discussing things that we say are new but that are not such as, for example, waiting lists. Perhaps the position is worse now, perhaps it is not - I do not know. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses. I am sure when we finished Sláintecare they probably hoped they would never be in this room again but here they are back. I will make a political point. I do not normally but my colleague has and I will join in. I welcome the Fianna Fáil commitment to Sláintecare. When we launched it, the strongest commitment we got from Fianna Fáil was that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It was not and we were all in the AV room together. I am not the only person who saw it. My view is that the legislation comes first. The legislation to entitlements is the driver. Earlier, the Minister appeared to be putting it the other way around. When everything is put in place, then and only then are we going to be in a position to legislate for maximum waiting times and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the level of overtime being worked by support staff in the City of Dublin Education and Training Board, CDETB; his plans to recruit staff to minimise the overtime being worked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40167/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the MSM one-year deferral period on blood donation; if further examination has or will be sought by his Department or the IBTS on the matter in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40133/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 164. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to commence Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40134/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Sexual Health Strategy (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the National Sexual Health Strategy 2015-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40135/18]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not agreed. Our party Whip has written to the Ceann Comhairle to request that additional time be made available this week, with perhaps a late sitting on Thursday and a sitting on Friday, to discuss the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill. Since the referendum, 1,500 women have travelled for terminations. It behoves us to treat this issue with the urgency that the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The Ceann Comhairle will have received correspondence on this.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the building of the new school in southern areas of Swords, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39496/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (2 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to plans for a school in Swords on the lands at Fosterstown; if this project is linked to the plans for MetroLink; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39497/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (2 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an audit has been carried out of those schools with vending machines in order to assess the income levels provided and determine the way in which schools can develop alternative sources of income; if not, the reason therefor; if the matter will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40048/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (2 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a question will be included on the income levels provided to schools by vending machines as part of the life skills survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40049/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (2 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 409. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1873 of 24 July 2018, if a further breakdown by age and gender of the number of persons discharged from emergency departments suffering from steroid use, steroid addiction or other ailments relating to the use of illegal drugs for enhancing sporting performance in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 452. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the health authorities here refuse to accept the diagnosis of Lyme disease following blood tests from accredited laboratories in Germany; the progress the health authorities have made in facilitating the diagnosis of the disease here; and the necessary follow up supports for those living with the disease. [40043/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (2 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 453. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will allocate the necessary funding in 2018 to the management of Letterkenny University Hospital to enable it to reopen the 19-bed short-stay ward in order to alleviate the serious pressure on its emergency department. [40044/18]