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

Louise O'Reilly: It is about the health of the entire nation. It is about the health of the citizenry of the State. It is not designed to impact more on one area than another. There are 500 people who die. If any person in this Chamber could stand up and say that was a Dublin-only issue, I could take seriously some of what was said. It is regrettable that the Government is not supporting this but I...

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

Louise O'Reilly: May I clarify that?

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

Louise O'Reilly: The steering group on a national substance abuse strategy was very cognisant of that exact point which is the reason it recommended phasing it out. That is the reason the amendment references 2023. In proposing the amendment we are seeking to ensure that alcohol sponsorship is phased out, rather than immediately stopped so that there would not be an immediate cliff, as it were, but a...

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

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Yes because that is in line with the recommendations of the steering group on a national substance abuse strategy.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 21:In page 20, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“Prohibition of sports sponsorship 15.(1) Alcohol sponsorship will be phased out by 31 December 2023. (2) In this section—“sponsorship” means any form of public or private contribution to any sports event, sports area, association or person with the aim or direct or indirect...

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...