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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the contract situation between the HSE, his Department and a laboratory (details supplied); if a new laboratory will be chosen to test smear test slides instead of the laboratory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43282/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (23 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 382. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be transferred to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, in view of the fact that the planned transfer has been delayed on numerous occasions. [43286/18]

Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I echo the sentiment expressed by my colleague, Deputy Ó Snodaigh, regarding this being a step in the right direction, but it really is just a step and is not what the Garda representative organisations want. They want trade union status, to be represented by a recognised trade union and to have the protections that gives. It is interesting that the people in these buildings who have...

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

Louise O'Reilly: Sinn Féin actively campaigned against the 27th amendment to the Constitution and the subsequent provisions in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, which sought to deny Irish citizenship to children born in Ireland to parents who are not Irish. It was wrong then and it continues to be wrong now. Politicians come in here and criticise President Trump for the deportation of children...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: While the Tánaiste's apology is welcome, there is not much evidence that this is actually a priority. Anybody could have predicted that there would be an upsurge in the uptake of smear tests because women were concerned. I thought it would have been very easy to predict that but, instead, a promise was made and a commitment given, and that was broken. I put the question again to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Last May in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal many assurances were given to women. In what was a difficult time for women and women's healthcare in the State one of the appropriate and sensible responses by the Minister for Health was the offer of a free repeat smear for those women who were concerned. It was what many people had been calling for at the time. It was generally assumed...

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend my colleagues for bringing forward this legislation. I say specifically to those Deputies from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael who are opposing it that they will have to face their own councillors because it is their own councillors, along with councillors from Sinn Féin and other parties, who repeatedly bring these issues up at council meetings and community meetings. What...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The section only refers to service and wages. They are the minimum. It just refers to service and remuneration. The latter is a word I hate because I always say it wrong. The Minister of State will know as well as I do that one's terms and conditions of employment are made up of a whole range of things. It is not just one's wages and service. If I am missing it, I apologise but it seems...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Could the Minister of State do so, because it seems narrow? It might be that I am misreading it.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Absolutely, I will of course.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Dublin City Council has a representative on the board of the National Maternity Hospital and that person fulfils a very important role in terms of ensuring that the board is rounded. I had some experience with another entity, which I will not name, where traditionally the custom and practice was that there was a seat for the worker's representatives. It was an extra seat but it was not...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I was not suggesting that the representation for the workers in the new hospital would solely reside with one member but rather that they would have a voice and be represented, the same as with patient advocates. This is important given that this is a place where people may be patients and where people will work. Worker representatives in other areas do a good job of ensuring that a group...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I will withdraw amendment No. 5 and resubmit it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 6: In page 15, line 31, to delete “or a local authority”. Amendments Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, are technical amendments that relate to amendment No. 5, so I do not propose to speak on them. I intend to withdraw each amendment and resubmit it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 7: In page 16, line 2, to delete “or a local authority”.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 8: In page 16, lines 7 and 8, to delete “or a local authority ”.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 9: In page 18, line 9, after “Children’s Health Ireland” to insert “and its subsidiaries”. This amendment is being submitted in order that the subsidiaries of Children's Health Ireland would be subject to oversight by the Committee of Public Accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General. We spend a great deal of time talking...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: We believe there is a need for this provision. I take on board what the Minister of State has said, I will consider what has been said at this meeting, and we may resubmit amendments. I will move both amendments and withdraw them with a view to resubmitting them following further discussions.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 10: In page 18, line 11, after “Children’s Health Ireland” to insert “and its subsidiaries”.