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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Children's Health Bill 2017: Discussion (25 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I do. It concerns the repeated use today of the words "core activities". There appears to be a division among our guests as to what constitute "core" and "non-core" activities. My view is that if nobody is there to open up the doors of the hospital, then any core activity going on within it is somewhat academic. I consider everybody who comes to work on a hospital campus to be "core" and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (24 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 233. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 378 to 381, inclusive, of 17 October 2017, the membership of the obesity policy implementation group for the national policy and action plan; the way in which members were chosen to sit on this group; the external health organisations that will be a part of this group; if the oversight group regularly meet and consult...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (24 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 234. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 378 to 381, inclusive, of 17 October 2017, the number of working groups it is envisioned will be established within the overall national oversight structure of the obesity policy implementation group for the national policy and action plan; the work that will be undertaken by these groups; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (24 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 236. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 378 to 381, inclusive, of 17 October 2017, the way in which he will consider and develop an effective methodology to monitor and evaluate the impact of the sugar sweetened drinks tax, including its impact on reformulation (details supplied); the timeframe for this to commence; if the appropriate resources are in place...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (24 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 235. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 378 to 381, inclusive, of 17 October 2017, the resources that are required for the independent testing of foods for fat and sugar content; if estimates have been submitted for same; the negotiations that have taken place regarding the use of external laboratories for same; and if he will make a statement on the...

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I commend Deputy Kelleher on this Bill. I am glad to say that Sinn Féin will support it. I have not been in this line of work for long but I am learning that a short Bill can do more than a very lengthy Bill. This is the case with this legislation. It is a good and fair idea that medical practitioners declare any income or gift received from medical suppliers, pharmaceutical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 162. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused repayment for hospital services availed of in May and June 2017 in Northern Ireland under the cross border directive. [44409/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I did not notice anything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I can substitute for Senator Gavan if that is agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman and the witnesses. I am substituting for my colleague, Senator Paul Gavan, who had to leave for a vote in the Seanad. I am interested in the three witnesses' views on the issue of risk. Is there such a thing as a gradation of risk such as serious risk and grave risk? Those are the types of terminologies we are using and indeed that the Citizens' Assembly used, but I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise - I am reading from my colleague's notes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Professor Arulkumaran used the terms low, medium and high risk, whereas the terms the citizens used are grave risk and serious risk. Those are not medical terms and are more legal terms.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: If the decision is taken to repeal the eighth amendment and allow for terminations in limited circumstances, is it the position of the witnesses that we need to address the issue of criminalisation regardless of the circumstances that may or may not be decided by this committee? Would the three witnesses be in agreement that the issue of criminalisation has to be addressed and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That is a short answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is the necessary physical infrastructure in place in rural Ireland, given we know there is a difference there? Would we need more capital investment and do we have the personnel right across the country, as opposed to just in certain designated centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I spoke already.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It is very regrettable that the members who chose not to take part in the debate before this now want to indulge in a bit of grandstanding. It is regrettable but not surprising. We have a proposal and it should be put. My understanding is that the Chairman is perfectly entitled to go through with this vote and I think we should just do this and then move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Options for Constitutional Change (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I will be very brief. My preference is for the motion that we had tabled but which we did not discuss. It calls for a straightforward repeal of Article 40.3.3°. Accusations of bias have been levelled at the level of this committee. That is what people say when democracy is exercised but they do not get the result they want. Those interested in getting the most out of the committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I have two simple questions. One relates to the 1,800 additional staff announced in the budget. Given the failure thus far to reach any of the targets which were set - the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, said recently there were only 13 additional staff - do the Minister and HSE have another plan? It is to be hoped that if so it is not just a restatement of whatever is currently being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That is a very long term strategy for a very short-term problem.