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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards (3 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 366. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lengthy delays for allied health professionals returning from abroad registering with the Health and Social Care Professional Council, CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41483/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards (3 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the process necessary for registration with the Health and Social Care Professional Council, CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41484/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (3 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts while allied health professionals are awaiting registration with the Health and Social Care Professional Council, CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 401. To ask the Minister for Health if the recent arrangement in County Cavan whereby the National Ambulance Service can deploy the fire and rescue service in the county to act as first responders in some emergencies can be extended to County Donegal. [41599/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (3 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 402. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 398 of 26 September 2017, the reason his Department rejected the application from Letterkenny University Hospital for two advanced nurse practitioners with a role in respect of transition services to adult clinics and a second advanced nurse practitioner in adult services who would also develop a speciality in pump therapy for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (3 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 407. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries, by type, on the elective waiting lists that have been cancelled in 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; the reason the surgeries were cancelled; if it was due to a lack of ICU or ward beds and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41627/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (3 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 440. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's business priorities for each of the past five years; the way in which scoliosis surgeries have been a part of these plans for each of the past five years; the location and funding for same; the way in which paediatric access and surgery have been a part of these plans for each of the past five years; the location and funding for same; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (3 Oct 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department received submissions as part of the Estimates process in the past five years to address the specific issue of scoliosis surgery; the way in which this was included in his Department's statement of priority over the past five years; the way in which this was included in his department’s budget over the past five years; and if he will...

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.