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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The increase, even though it is small, is costing somewhere in the region of €53 million. There is a cost for discharging people into long term care. I fully appreciate that it is creeping up at a slow rate but it is creeping up nonetheless. It needs to be reversed. Significant money is being spent because it is not going in the right direction; it is actually costing us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: My question intended to ascertain whether everyone was in the same room and that all aspects, including the clinical care pathway, would be part of the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Chronic Disease Management: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: There has to be a timeline as well but I take Dr. O'Shea's point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee and for their evidence. Following approval of the regulations, it will be an offence - down the line, obviously, not the following morning - for someone to represent himself or herself as a counsellor if he or she does not fulfil the minimum requirements and is not appropriately registered. Will the witnesses confirm this and confirm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise for interrupting. It might be that I did not make my question clear or perhaps that Ms Walsh will come to it. Obviously, the people who want to do it right will get all the paperwork and so on to ensure they have the qualifications and register. I am talking about, for want of a better word, chancers who will not go through the process of registering. Will they face a penalty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: -----there are penalties. Will there be similar penalties for those who misrepresent themselves as counsellors, etc.?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: It is a criminal offence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board: Discussion (7 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: This important piece of work is due in no small part to the issues raised in the media by Ellen Coyne and others. We have made progress and I would not like that to go unmarked because very often we do not manage to conclude, or even come close to concluding, issues.

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister said that the Government asked employers nicely but that did not work. The Taoiseach, during many photo opportunities where he read out the weather forecast and so forth, told people to stay at home for their own health and safety. However, many people cannot afford to take a day off work. What is the Minister's advice to them? How do they pay their bills? What are they...

Topical Issue Debate: Employment Rights (6 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister for Health was quick to tweet a message which contradicted the message given by the head of HR in the health service, namely, that anyone who could not get to work or whose workplace was closed would receive emergency leave with pay. This put at ease the minds of a lot of health care workers, many of whom stayed in hotels, away from their families during a severe weather...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (6 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cataract surgeries cancelled nationally by hospital in 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10439/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (6 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 131. To ask the Minister for Health the length of times each person has been on the waiting list for cataract surgery nationally by hospital; the length of time they have been waiting, by month, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10440/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 132. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals that are no longer taking referrals for cataract surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10441/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (6 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of a hospital bed; the fully absorbed cost of a hospital bed, including staff, ancillary services and running costs; the capital costs associated with opening new beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10483/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (6 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the HSE budget distinguished between current and capital expenditure in each of the years 2018 to 2022. [10484/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy Expenditure (6 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the allocated funding towards the national maternity strategy, NMS, by current and capital expenditure in each of the years 2018 to 2022. [10485/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy Implementation (6 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the capital cost of delivering the national maternity strategy. [10486/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (28 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the scanning or diagnostic equipment which the HSE will be installing in the new primary care centre in Balbriggan; the staff that have or will be recruited to operate this equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10282/18]

Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand that many aspects of the Bill are quite technical as they seek to amend certain provisions of the Radiological Protection Act and also provide a legal basis under the principal Act for the transposition into Irish law of certain articles of the EURATOM Council directive. 7 o’clock It is important that certain radiological functions are appropriated to the correct...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing accommodation crisis in a school (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the building is inadequate; the timeframe for the transfer of the school to new premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9628/18]