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Other Questions: Home Care Packages (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The average cost per hour of a home help is €23.20 according to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In the not-for-profit and directly-employed home care arena, we would get that hour for approximately €17 so what is pushing up the price is the private home care providers. Deputy Bríd Smith is right: people in global multinational corporations can afford to...

Other Questions: Respite Care Services Data (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: When I last raised this issue, it was on Leaders' Questions, which the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, was taking that day. I raised the case of Jacob Dooley, whose mother and father were in a desperate situation. As often happens in such circumstances, they had to turn to the media just to get some movement on their son's case. I asked specifically about the number of...

Other Questions: Respite Care Services Data (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is "home sharing" the new term for foster care? I met a group in Kerry recently. Although they could not take it in the end, some of its members had been offered the option of foster care. I do not need to tell the Minister, given that he has read about it in the newspapers,-----

Other Questions: Respite Care Services Data (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: -----but foster care for people with disabilities has received a negative airing recently. That is not meant disrespectfully to the hundreds of people-----

Other Questions: Respite Care Services Data (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: -----who do fantastic work providing foster care for people with disabilities. Foster care is in no way a solution, however. If that is the direction that we are going-----

Other Questions: Respite Care Services Data (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister for confirming that it is not. As to quantifying the unmet need, it strikes me that, if the number of requests is not assessed against the number of available hours, the Minister will not know how many hours will be needed or be in a position to plan for them.

Other Questions: Respite Care Services Data (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Please, do.

Other Questions: Respite Care Services Data (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 6. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of respite care offered to families of children with disabilities in the first nine months of 2017 as compared with the first nine months of 2016; and the way in which this compares with the number of applications for respite care by families for their child with a disability in the first nine months of 2017 as compared with the first nine...

Other Questions: Respite Care Services Data (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is straightforward. I doubt if there is a Deputy in the House who does not receive daily requests for help and assistance from parents and carers who are desperate for respite. We are speaking to people who have not had respite for years rather than months and some who have not had any respite.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Staff Recruitment (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: If pay were the only issue, it would be sorted by now. However, it is not. Poor working environment is also an issue. The Minister is right that it is a chicken and egg question. We do need people to come and work in our health service. I note the Minister issued an appeal to graduates. I would appeal to him to make their workplace more appealing and, thereby, encourage more of them...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Staff Recruitment (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not doubt there are nurses coming from overseas to work here. However, they are staying six months and then they are going on elsewhere. This has been said to me on more than one occasion by nurses' representatives because that is what they see in their workplace. I welcome the fact that there will be a nursing commission. We need a commission along the lines of the previous one...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Staff Recruitment (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It is true. It was taking much longer previously, but it is still taking months to get a permanent contract. They need to be issued as a matter of course. If that involves devolving the authority to do so down to the level of hospital management, then that should be done. The centralised recruitment process is not working.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Staff Recruitment (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 2. To ask the Minister for Health the vacancy rates for consultants, doctors, nurses and midwives in the HSE; and his plans to fill those vacancies while also retaining existing staff in the HSE. [41006/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Staff Recruitment (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: My question is very straightforward. It provides the Minister with a platform and opportunity to tell the House all of the good news he has on recruitment and, specifically, retention measures for staff. My understanding is that we are losing consultants and other health care professionals as fast as they are coming in due to the poor quality of the working environment.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 49. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increase in the waiting list figures as reported by the NTPF recently; his plans to address this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40777/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 56. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the scoliosis waiting list targets were missed; the steps he is taking to address the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40780/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 67. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking regarding allegations by ambulance drivers that precious time is being lost by ambulances travelling to accidents and other emergencies due to the fact they are not fitted with satellite navigation equipment and advanced paramedics are instead having to use ordnance survey maps on their personal mobile phones due to the lack of an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Staff (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 75. To ask the Minister for Health if primary care centres (details supplied) will receive additional new staff; if there will be no new hires, if staff will instead be moved from areas in the locality to the centre; the locations they will be moved from, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40781/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 148. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the agreement reached with Portland hospital and Franziskus hospital for the provision of surgery for children with scoliosis from Ireland; the type of surgery to be provided; the number of surgeries to be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41019/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the surgery plan for the 68 identified children with complex medical needs that are awaiting surgery for scoliosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41020/17]