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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Then why are they down in the WRC trying to get one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: This is in the papers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: What value for money tools are used for this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it the case that we can leave the scopes out of that calculation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: What is the number for procedures carried out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the HSE use a benchmark? If a procedure costs €1,000 in the public service but €10,000 in the private sector, are the two figures compared? Many of the parliamentary questions to which Mr. Bolger referred were tabled by me and it is a bit like banging my head off a brick wall. We keep being told there are efficiencies in the private sector but I do not buy that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It was not meant to be a comment on the responses - I am sure people do their best. What comparison is used? I am not convinced that value for money exists in the private sector and I agree with Deputy Donnelly that the NTPF is, at best, a sticking plaster. How does Mr. Woods decide that it is good value for money? We have heard from the head of the NTPF, who is a public servant, to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I would prefer to get the written answer promised by Mr. Woods. I ask for that to be provided before our meeting next week as we will be discuss this again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a brief observation as well for Ms Cowan regarding the high cost of living and the affordability of homes. I do not believe there was the same trouble recruiting at the height of the property bubble. There is more at play than simply the cost of living. I believe it is the conditions in which the nurses and every other grade are working that are contributing to making the HSE an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: If Mr. Gloster could send me a reply in writing, there is no difficulty-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
Hospital Services: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Perhaps Mr. Gloster could ask Mr. Canavan to confirm this in writing.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (3 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite care hours provided for the first quarter of 2017 compared to the number of respite care hours provided in the first quarter of 2018 in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, area in tabular form. [28824/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (3 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 303. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 8 May 2018, if reports of the reformulation sub-group in line with its terms of reference will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28922/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (3 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 304. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 8 May 2018, the timeline for the development of a roadmap by the sub-group on reformulation for progressing its work within its terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28923/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (3 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 305. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 8 May 2018, the status of the work being undertaken in developing proposals for the purposes of conducting an evaluation of the SSD tax; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28924/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Labelling (3 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 306. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the European Commission hosted joint meeting on front-of-pack nutrition labelling on 22 June 2018; the response by his Department to the survey sent in the context of the REFIT evaluation of the nutrition and health claims regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28925/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Labelling (3 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 307. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development and publication of nutrient profiles to avoid misleading the public on the health claims of food products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28926/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (3 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the data mapping of all services offered by the HSE, including voluntary and community groups in Dublin 8. [28927/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (3 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 310. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that owns the lease for Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; the HSE and the hospital board's plans for the building after the new national children's hospital opens; and if there will be public consultation on the future of the property once the hospital winds down its operations. [28944/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (3 Jul 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 311. To ask the Minister for Health if Dublin City Council will have a representative on the board of the new national children's hospital in continuity of its representation on the board of Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28945/18]