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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (5 Dec 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 456. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to outline the way in which families can access play therapy for their children through the public system; the criteria to access such a service; if there is a waiting time for access to this service; the way in which homeless children can access this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51966/17]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It is fair to say that the political differences between the Minister and me are most acute when it comes to health and, in particular, the issue of private versus public health care. We see legislation of this sort every year and with each year we are reminded of the body of work that progressive parties have ahead of them to address the imbalance in health care and remove private health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I had to leave, so if I ask a question that has already been asked, the witnesses should not feel the need to answer it. I can check back on the record. I want to know about the recruitment of the 52 sonographers. We have already heard at this committee extensive evidence on the need to access scans for the purpose of detecting anomalies, dating and so on, so we know it is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Those plans, which are ambitious, are very welcome, but I must be honest. In response to a parliamentary question I asked, the Minister, in what was not exactly a ringing endorsement, said, "Let us be very honest, the likelihood of finding all of that cohort in one go is slim." He is not convinced, I certainly am not, and that is very worrying because, as I and others have said here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I am looking for confirmation from the HSE that it believes it important that the information is collated centrally. I do not believe it would be good enough to leave the recording of the data to the local level. There should be some central aspect to it. I do not want to bounce Mr. Woods into saying something now and I would be happy for him to come back to me with his thoughts on it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I would trust that in that scenario people would understand - the doctor would certainly understand - the difference between a casual inquiry and a request. It is certainly not a trivial issue to be contemplating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Dr. McKenna's colleagues have just said that they believed this information was available locally so clearly the difficulty that Dr. McKenna has outlined is not there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Both of Dr. McKenna's colleagues have said it.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I might be alone among the Members currently in the Chamber as having been in Government Buildings on the night the pension levy was introduced in 2009. There are many, including all the civil and public servants working tonight, who will remember that. Should they ever forget, there is a handy reminder in every pay packet they receive. At the time, we did not know what FEMPI was and...

Disclosures Tribunal: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend Deputy Ó Laoghaire on the introduction of this motion. The events of recent days have refocused the minds of many people on the problems in the Department of Justice and Equality. Nobody inside or outside this House has contradicted the contention that such problems also exist at the highest levels of An Garda Síochána and indeed at the heart of the Government. All...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Thompson for appearing before the committee and for his evidence. We are very interested in hearing the facts on this committee and Mr. Thompson has outlined them comprehensively. If my math is correct, according to the statistics Mr. Thompson gave us, 55% of terminations under clause E, which represents a very small number - about 1.7% - are performed between 13 and 19 weeks....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It relates to the fact that scans are offered in most instances where it is clinically indicated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: We can all endorse that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I only have scribbled notes. I think that was my first question - on the scans. I know Mr. Thompson is here specifically to discuss clause E. However, he mentions that clauses C and D are gestation dependent. How is that dated? Is it simply from the date of the last period or by scan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for sharing their experiences and information with us. It is fair to say, and I will not give away my age, that the curriculum has moved on since I attended school. That is a good thing but we have a little further to go. I listened to the presentations and I was startled to learn that sometimes RSE takes place during religion classes. I wish to refer to a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Moran has referred to the RSE as if it is a standardised programme. I am sure that it contains standardised elements. Can the RSE course be tweaked to suit the ethos of an individual school? There may be people teaching abstinence until marriage. That might conform with the ethos of the school but I cannot imagine it will confirm with what is contained in the programme. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: My question was specifically in regard to accreditation. There is no list of approved third parties or agencies. I could set up an agency in the morning and once I tick the boxes, I could deliver a programme with my own slant on it to schools, albeit within the very broad parameters Ms Egan outlined. There is no regulation or accreditation that could be used to prevent this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Expansion: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I will go first and then it can be decided. I thank the witnesses for coming in and for all the information they have provided. I was a member of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare and we would have felt the loss of the witnesses' input because it is very helpful to hear from people who are actually delivering the services. It is all very well for us to imagine what it might look...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Expansion: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it Dr. Walley's opinion that it would lead to more additional testing on the basis that if a person's GP knows the patient, he or she will know the family history?