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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise in advance as I need to attend a quick meeting. I will ask my questions but will check the answers and correspond. I hope I will be back before this meeting is finished. I refer to the issue of stretched income targets. I believe Ms Cowan first alerted us to them some time ago. Reference was made to the difficulties they cause, and we attempted at that committee hearing to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it the case that they should be looking for this from private income but where they do not get it that is met by Supplementary Estimates?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise for not being able to be here for the initial presentations. I have questions for both representative groups but forgive me if they have been already answered. I can look at the record for the answers in that case. Do the representative association members have any objection to their time being monitored? I worked in a union when a process of clocking in and out was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It is something of a double-edged sword as there is something in it for the employer, which can be satisfied that the work is being done, and there is something in it for the worker, who can say he or she turned up and was available for work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: There is nothing ordinary about doctors.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the 20 -month waiting lists for transgender persons awaiting appointments with a HRT specialist endocrinologist; his views on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53360/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure Programme (13 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the pre-committed funding for planned future capital projects relating to health in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53387/17]

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I propose to share my time with Deputies Pat Buckley and Martin Kenny. I commend the members of the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward the motion which I believe is extremely important. It is good that we are talking about the issue. I have had occasion to see on a number of levels the operation of the home help service in action. I have represented home helps for many years....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (12 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of respite care offered to families of children with disabilities in the first 11 months of 2017 as compared to the first 11 months of 2016, by CHO and LHO. [52925/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Data (12 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 321. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of respite care offered to families of adults with disabilities in the first 11 months of 2017 as compared to the first 11 months of 2016, by CHO and LHO. [52926/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Registration Authority Administration (7 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to that which constitutes exceptional circumstances as detailed in an application for sight of documents from the Land Registry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52550/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (7 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels in child and adolescent mental health services, in tabular form; the way in which this compares to recommended levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52413/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (7 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels in adult mental health services; the way in which this compares to recommended levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52414/17]

Neurological Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Deputy Murphy O'Mahony and the Neurological Alliance of Ireland for helping to draft the motion and I thank Deputy Murphy O'Mahony for proposing it. This is an extremely important and timely motion. More than a year ago, I raised with the Minister of State the We Need our Heads Examined campaign. While we have heard some fine words in the meantime, unfortunately, precious little...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes. I wish to speak after Senator Mullen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend you, Chairman, for the manner in which you have chaired the proceedings in difficult and trying circumstances. It had not been my intention to address remarks directly to any person, but since that is happening we all might as well lash into it. Senator Mullen said that if we were hearing anything he was saying for the first time that perhaps it would give us pause to think. Of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It was utterly shameful that happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The opportunity was there on more than one occasion for people to come in and sit here but they did not take it. That did the people whom we asked to come in and give us evidence a great disservice. It is also regrettable that the night we heard from Gerry and Claire from Termination for Medical Reasons that the three people who call themselves the cheerleaders for pro-life – it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not think it would be appropriate-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I have the floor. Thank you, Chairman. I also think that what we strove to do at every single committee hearing was to hear evidence and facts. We have spoken to medical professionals and legal experts. The facts might contradict the narrative put forward by some people but they are the facts, just as the representatives of the Danish Government have sought to put on record the facts....