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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Apparently it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister and the officials to the meeting. Before making my remarks I wish to thank the Chairman, the secretariat, witnesses, the Trinity College team and committee members because we did good work. We put great effort into the report and that is fairly obvious on reading it. There are those of us who would have liked to see the report go further in some areas but in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister can take it that there will be no unwillingness on the part of members of the committee. The funding targeted for waiting list reduction initiatives is €75 million. Will the Minister give us a breakdown indicating where that funding will be spent? On the robust monitoring system that will be put in place, again, I go back to the stretched income targets. This is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a difference between that and the setting of targets. Nobody is saying that money due to the State should not be collected. Not one person here has said that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: There is a huge difference between the State obligating its employees to collect money due to it, which is appropriate, and the setting of targets by the State for employees and the stretching of those targets year on year. There is a huge problem in this regard. The Minister cannot say that anybody here suggested that money due to the State should not be collected. Of course, it should be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The point I was making was that it was politically designed. It did not come from the HSE. I was not trying to personalise it with the Minister. I understand he did not design it. I thought it was obvious but if it was not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sure they will do their research.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Registration (21 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 469 of 7 November 2017, the status of the query in view of the fact it has not been resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48731/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Regional Service Plans (21 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 363. To ask the Minister for Health if the chief medical officer or a body in the HSE has recommended the implementation of the Portlaoise action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49028/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (21 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the contact between his Department and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment in respect of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015, specifically on provisions and amendments previously tabled relating to restrictions on advertising on the Internet and for related definitions and offences; the way in which the two...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (21 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 381. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to facilitate the commencement of sections 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; the timeframe for full enactment; if his attention has been drawn to the many families affected by this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49183/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (16 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to a mechanism for public servants who are members of the single public service pension scheme to access AVCs in the same way as persons on the previous scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48501/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Data (16 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the numbers of civil and public servants who are members of the single public service pension scheme, by grade and by employer, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48502/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Expenditure (16 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 149. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing building works in the new primary care centre in Balbriggan; the reason for these works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48507/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Expenditure (16 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the building of the new primary care centre in Balbriggan; the amount by which this has exceeded the original estimate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48508/17]

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That is outrageous.

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 4 of Principal Act 2. Section 4(1) of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following after paragraph (l):“(m) counsellors, that is to say, a person or organisation who engages in, and holds himself, herself or itself out as having experience or expertise to...