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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Data (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Let us be honest that more of the same will not work because it is not working. The Minister is offering nurses a permanent contract in a health service that has become an unattractive place to work. I am sure the INMO members told him that at their conference - in fact, I am certain they told him that. I acknowledge the damage caused by the recruitment moratorium introduced by Fianna...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Data (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: When I said more of the same, the Minister read out statistics. I asked for them so I am not criticising him for that. They showed a rate of increase, and I am not brilliant at hard sums, such that by my reckoning it will probably take a decade or more to get back up to the level we were at before the crisis. That is before taking account of the fact that we are moving away from a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 61. To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls that have been made to the CervicalCheck helpline; the number that have been returned; the number that are awaiting a return call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23451/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 72. To ask the Minister for Health if the central sterilising supply department at the Mater Hospital will be retained within the public health system; if plans are in place to outsource the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23449/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Charges (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 99. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to update the living kidney donor reimbursement scheme to provide for the reimbursement of stay-at-home parents that donate a kidney; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23452/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 121. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite care hours provided for the first quarter of 2018 in each CHO area; the way in which this compares with applications for respite care; the respite care provided in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date 2018, by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23450/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 128. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a new neuro interventional angiography suite at Beaumont Hospital; if there is a contingency plan should the suite cease to operate suddenly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23453/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23128/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 321. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in the National Rehabilitation Hospital; the number occupied, empty and closed, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23129/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 322. To ask the Minister for Health if funding issues are causing beds at the National Rehabilitation Hospital to remain empty and not staffed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23130/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (29 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on agency and locum staff in hospitals in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by nurses, doctors and so on and by hospital and CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23672/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 66 to 70, inclusive, of 16 May 2018, the details of the amendment to the legislation that will be brought forward in the Finance Bill 2018 to impose a calcium threshold on products within the exempt categories; the proposed threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23011/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for attending. I received their presentations yesterday evening and have had a chance to read over them. I have a memory of this happening at the time. Mr. Casey and I are colleagues and we made comment on outsourcing at the time. I will focus on what drove the decision to outsource. My memory is that it was a highly politicised decision. The comment that was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I will be brief. I apologise that I must ask my question and then leave because I have an appointment. My interest is in the decision that was taken in 2008 on outsourcing the screening service. It is pretty clear that it was a political decision. The witnesses might be able to fill the committee in on the clinical involvement at the time. What is the witnesses' understanding on where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: So the clinicians were not involved in the selection of that particular lab.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That is very interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: To be crystal clear, we are having this hearing on screening programmes because of a scandalous withholding of information from women, albeit by another programme. What the Dáil and this and other committees have discussed is the apparent paternalistic attitude of people within the health service towards the women who are users of that service. With respect, that is why Professor Hill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: We all watched the "Prime Time" episode in February on Ms Alison McCormack, and the issue there was the withholding of information. I respect that the witnesses offer women the choice to look back and Professor Hill has said it is most probably done. Is it not written down somewhere that it should be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: There was a 300-page document on open disclosure in 2013. In what way was it transposed into everyday practice? Have there been seminars or discussions on it? Have any protocols been introduced? We were told by very senior people within the Health Service Executive and the Department, as well as some politicians in here, that we did not need mandatory open disclosure or legal underpinning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: No, at no stage did I use the word "remiss". Will Mr. McCallion explain from a policy and administrative perspective what exactly happened to the 2013 open disclosure document. In no way have I tried to disparage the programme. As I have said repeatedly, I am a supporter of the programme. It is important to me that the women I represent have confidence in that programme. Perhaps the...