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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I welcome our guests to the meeting, thank them for the massive work they put in to the report and say, "Well done." While it has nothing to do with them, I am disappointed there was no allocation in the budget for contraception. Surely if the issue was to be taken seriously, there would have been an allocation in the 2020 health budget. I acknowledge it was a different type of budget from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Is it all targeted at teenagers? What about the young men and women who might have left school when there was not a great deal of talk about sex education? I refer to those who might now be in their late 20s or early 30s. Does the HSE target that age group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: That is good. The estimated cost of €80 million to €100 million is a large sum, and there is a difference of €20 million. I accept that it is estimated but which of the two figures does the HSE expect it to be closer to? The sum of €20 million is a large difference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: On the mechanics of the report, Mr. Conlon stated 5,000 responses had been received in a public consultation exercise. Will he explain how that worked? Did the Department call or write to people? How did it choose whom to contact?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I thank the Minister of State.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Fianna Fáil will support this Bill, which is somewhat akin to the finance Bill or the social welfare Bill, as it arrives in November every year. The measures within it are designed to support risk equalisation and to sustain community rating in the health insurance market so that older citizens and people with illnesses can afford health insurance and are not discriminated against in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Why is it that to date in 2019 more than 1,500 people in the over 75 age group have endured emergency department waiting times of more than 24 hours at CUH?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Deputy Michael McGrath has a genuine reason for being absent.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I am glad that the Minister clarified that because Deputy Michael McGrath has a genuine reason for being absent. He left this question in my capable hands, I hope. Between January and the end of October this year, a total of 1,508 people aged over 75 endured emergency department waits of longer than 24 hours in CUH. These are some of our most vulnerable patients. The Mercy Hospital in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I accept that the Minister is trying hard but something is very wrong when the most vulnerable in our society have to wait so long in emergency departments. Many older people do not want to go into hospital because of the long waiting times. That is not good enough. Is he aware that the numbers are twice as bad as the same period last year? This is not acceptable, particularly as there is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disabilities Assessments (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 48. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to reduce the number of overdue assessments of need under the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48760/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disabilities Assessments (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: What measures are being taken to reduce the large numbers waiting for assessments of need under the Disability Act 2005?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disabilities Assessments (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: As the Minister of State knows, under the Act the assessment is supposed to start within three months of application and to be completed within another three months. This is not happening. Right across west Cork and indeed nationally I have heard of many cases in which the parents, who obviously know their children best, know what is wrong with their children but just need this official...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disabilities Assessments (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: What the Minister of State is trying to do is obviously not working. If there has been an increase in the number of overdue assessments in the past six months, there is something wrong. I acknowledge that the numbers went down in 2018, but this year they are increasing, and that is just not good enough. The Minister of State spoke of the importance of early intervention, and it is hugely...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Physiotherapy Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 99. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve waiting times for physiotherapy assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48761/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: In mid-October, a sinkhole occurred in Allihies in beautiful west Cork, and since then the road has been closed. While safety is paramount, it is having a detrimental effect on local people. We have six families whose refuse has not been collected since it happened and five families who, instead of being able to walk a quarter of a mile to school, now have to take a round trip of six miles...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Does the Minister of State have a timeframe for the work?

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: In 2011, the then Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, vowed to bring an end to hospital overcrowding. All these years later, that vow has still not come to fruition. Many other promises made at the time did not come to fruition either but today is not the day to go into all of that. Never before have so many people been waiting on trolleys. Never before have so many old people been left waiting...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: There are many people from west Cork living and working in non-EU countries as teachers. Many of these people are anxious to come back home but they find themselves receiving no incremental credits when they come home. I was talking to a young lad the other day who has been teaching in Sydney for eight years, so he is an experienced young man, but when he comes home he will have to start...