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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 177. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1038 of 11 September 2017, the details of cardiac diagnostic testing infrastructure deficits across hospital groups; the detail of submissions made by the hospital groups for additional cardiac diagnostic testing equipment and infrastructure across the hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 178. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1038 of 11 September 2017, the details of infrastructural improvement projects to address cardiac infrastructure deficits made in submissions by the hospital groups; the detail of infrastructural improvement projects to address cardiac infrastructure deficits made in submissions by the national clinical programme; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 179. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1130 of 11 September 2017, his plans to recruit a national stroke audit manager; the timeframe for the planned transfer of governance of the national stroke audit to NOCA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41084/17]

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

Louise O'Reilly: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been issues with the provision of thrombectomy services at Beaumont hospital due to the age or utility of equipment; if concerns have been expressed by clinicians in respect of the existing thrombectomy infrastructure; his plans to address infrastructural and equipment issues in view of the importance of the service in the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken to advance the recommendations of the HIQA health technology assessment of mechanical thrombectomy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41086/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (28 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will be reporting on the national obesity plan as per the action point in Ten Steps Forward to report annually on the plan; if so, when; if a report card will be done of the progress to date in view of the fact that the report is a year old; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41087/17]

UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: There is unanimity across the House and among the majority of people in the North of this island that Brexit will be bad for Ireland. Not only is it a threat socially and economically, but it also threatens the health of people, north and south of the Border. It threatens the health of Irish people because a hard border will damage access to health care and health facilities, as well as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I had a list of questions, but most of them have been asked and answered comprehensively. I thank the delegates for the information they have provided for us and coming to see us. One of the issues we are discussing is the need for legal certainty. We have discussed it over and over again and there has been much talk about the need for legal certainty. In the opinion of the delegates, do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I am under pressure for time so will try to be as quick as I can. I apologise if I cannot wait for the reply; I will catch up on the transcript and will stay for as long as I can. I might be able to help with regard to the difficulty in recruiting home help staff. As the Minister will know already, I represented home help staff for long years. They are a fantastic bunch, mostly women,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Surely the Minister has some authority to be able to instruct the people who are in charge of publishing those figures. The Minister is fooling nobody publishing them at 6 p.m. on a Friday. We all know if it was good news it would be 9 a.m. or even 8 a.m. on a Monday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It was not good news. The long-term waiters are up. We can see that from the Minister's own figures. The figures are up for children waiting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Whether it is good news or bad news, the figures should be published at a reasonable time. The Minister's colleague who was responsible for the housing figures got caught on this a number of times and now those figures are published. I have written to the Minister on this matter on more than one occasion. We all know what kind of news gets published at 6 p.m. on a Friday and it is not good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I accept some hospitals are making progress but the Minister freely admitted he is not quite sure what the reasons are. It is good that he is not trying to take any credit for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I know. It is down to people working hard, in some instances despite the efforts of the Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate that. I said I would say that. I did not say the Minister would necessarily agree with me. Challenges are faced in those hospitals where trolley numbers are high. Overall the trolley figure is not good and the Minister would not claim it is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: -----and it is getting worse. When a former Minister, Mary Harney, declared a national emergency during the last Fianna Fáil Government, there were 469 patients on trolleys. Another former Minister, Senator James Reilly, said we would never again see 569 people on trolleys, and then we reached 615. It is clear that while there may be hospitals that are working well or better or doing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: In any accident and emergency department in any hospital there will be staff working to the absolute top of their capability. People are giving way more than their contracted hours and going way beyond the call of duty. As well as looking at the successes - sometimes when we note the rate of increase has slowed, it is classed as a success - we have to look at what those hospitals that are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The hospital group to which the Minister referred is operating an integrated waiting list management system. That was reported in the media.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I am still waiting for an update that was due in August in relation to the proposals we made. I appreciate that those in the Department call it a single integrated waiting list management system. We shorten that and call it Comhliosta. The Department officials can have that name if they wish. If it is proven to work, and it has been proven to work-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I know I do not need to do a job to convince the Minister. If it has been proven to work, even in a small number of hospitals, then logic should dictate that it can and should be deployed nationally.