Results 9,901-9,920 of 12,718 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (8 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 330. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the subgroup on reformulation will be working with the FSAI on monitoring and validation procedures and setting reformulation targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19960/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (8 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the position of a stroke nurse at South Tipperary General Hospital; if there are vacancies for the position in the area; if so, the length of time the post has been vacant; the efforts being made to fill this post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19961/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 332. To ask the Minister for Health when a public consultation with persons and stakeholders on the way in which to improve cardiac services will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19962/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the status of provision of cardiac rehabilitation capacity to meet the population needs; the status of the self-management support framework being prepared by the health and well-being division within the integrated care programme for chronic disease in which the relevant recommendations of the 2010 to 2019 policy and the recommendation for the development...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided in each year since 2010 for the implementation of the national cardiovascular health policy in tabular form; the way in which this funding was broken down across its clinical programmes on heart failure, acute coronary and stroke; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19964/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the national review of specialist cardiac services will impact upon a review of the national cardiovascular policy 2010-2019 in view of the short timeframe; if there will be a review of the policy with a view to producing a new one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19965/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019 (8 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if a review has been carried out or is planned of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019 to examine the success in implementing its recommendations and those that are outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19966/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 337. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 359 of 27 March 2018 and 914 of 17 April 2018, the contingency plans in place should the existing neuro interventional angiography suite at Beaumont Hospital cease to operate suddenly in view of the recognition of its need to be replaced and for a further suite to be in place; if there is a facility in the capital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (8 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 338. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 20 February 2018, the status of the monitoring body to be designated to monitor the voluntary codes of practice on the marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages; the timeframe for the designation of the body; the timeframe for the development of guidelines for implementation of the code and mechanisms for...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That is not an answer.

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: There are commitments in the programme for Government to legislate for a duty of candour as well as to conduct business in a transparent way. In that vein, I ask the Taoiseach to give a commitment to the House that all relevant documentation relating to CervicalCheck will be published on the Department of Health's website in advance of any inquiry, because once an inquiry begins, it may be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Paragraph 4.1 of the HSE statement advises that "clinical directors have put in place monitoring arrangements appropriate to the circumstances of the practice of post-2008 consultants not in the relevant specialist division". How are the monitoring arrangements in place for reading radiology results? Does one person read the information and another read the same film? It strikes me as odd...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: That applies where people are actually being replaced but the unfortunate thing is that they are not in many instances.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: As a follow on from the last question, it might be advisable to get that information out to GPs as soon as possible because the women who cannot get through to the helpline are trying to get through to their GPs and they are being advised that the GPs have absolutely no knowledge of what they should be doing. That is just by way of comment. My first question is for Mr. O'Brien. He stated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Gleeson might just name them or the grade they were at, if he does not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: How many meetings took place before the circular was drafted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The people involved in drafting the circular.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It took a month or two for it to be drafted by senior people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: Did nobody think at any stage to tell the director general? Maybe they did not think it was serious. Surely they must have known that it was serious.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: But nobody thought it was important to bring it to the director general's attention. With regard to the cases that have been identified, the 208 and rising, how many of them are beyond the statistical rate? My understanding of Vicky Phelan's case, and I am not a doctor, is it was not within the normal range of statistical error and, in fact, when they went to look back it was not that she...