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Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not what we are discussing.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes. That is all it is.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister and Ms Magahy and wish her the best of luck with the task ahead. There is an awful lot riding on the Sláintecare plan. I listened to the previous exchange on which Government made the biggest mistakes in the health service. We could play that game all day but it probably will not advance the discussion. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has...

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

Louise O'Reilly: On the transition of services to primary care, much of our primary care is centred around GPs. I have seen no evidence that any progress has been made on the renegotiation of the GP contract. Will the Minster update us on where that process has reached? I have repeatedly asked questions about staffing for primary care centres, and each time I receive the same answer. It is a real cut and...

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

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister could just inform the officials in his Department because I could paper the walls of this room with the responses I have received and they all say the same thing. There may be new staff moving in from other areas, say in Balbriggan, where they closed the health centre and moved them into the new health centre, but that does not represent additional staff for a town with the...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I asked a very specific question about where the legislation to underpin waiting times has disappeared to, and the worrying move from universal access to expanding eligibility. It is in the Sláintecare report but it is not in the implementation plan. I am conscious of time and do not want to eat into others’ time.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Will the Minister point out to me where that is because I did not see it?

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

Louise O'Reilly: I asked about publishing the costing along with the review and the updates.

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...