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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the proposed provision of the walkway between two locations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21851/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the building of a school (details supplied) in Corduff, Dublin 15; if the funding is in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21852/17]

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I will begin by acknowledging the cross-party support for this motion, which sends a fairly clear message to women and indeed, to men. Perhaps they get a hard time sometimes but one gets the feeling that they made a lot of the rules that we are trying to undo at the moment. I have to say that for an order that takes a vow of poverty, chastity, obedience and service to the poor, the Sisters...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes: — that since 2011, maternity services in Ireland have been marked with investigations and, in some cases, alleged cover ups of maternal and child mortality or injury in Portiuncula as well as University Hospital Galway, Portlaoise, Cavan, and Drogheda; — that Ireland has the lowest number of consultant obstetricians per 100,000 women...

Other Questions: Stroke Care (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Let me clarify this. We are agreed that the pilots worked, that there are savings for the Exchequer and that there are benefits for the patients. We are ticking all those boxes. Is the plan for the Estimates that it would be a full roll-out next year and not another pilot or a partial roll-out? I am not trying to put words in the Minister's mouth; I am asking a genuine question. It will...

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: When officials from the Department of Health Brexit committee appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health, I was flabbergasted. When we asked how many people use the cross-border directive to avail of NHS services, they were able to give us an approximate figure, but were not able to tell us how many people go to England. However, what was worse was that when I asked why they...

Other Questions: Stroke Care (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: When I was a union official we had a particularly difficult employer and we used to say that if something we suggested made sense he would not do it. My question, however, makes eminent sense. Supported discharge programmes have been proven to work so will they now be rolled out nationally? Will they be funded and prioritised?

Other Questions: Stroke Care (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister says it will be 2018. If it makes sense now, would it not make sense to prioritise it? Even though pilot ESD programmes have been proven to be effective, only three early supported discharge teams are in existence covering four acute hospitals. If we have all decided we agree on it, it is farcical not to act on it. International studies show that 25% to 40% of all stroke...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 3. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a restriction on not-for-profit home helps providing additional services to clients over and above that allocated by the HSE; the reason these restrictions are in place, especially when those vulnerable persons in receipt of care may not be getting sufficient hours from the HSE; if there is a plan in place to bridge the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: This question is quite simple. In an ideal world, all home help hours should be provided directly by the State. However, since the State is not doing that, the question relates to the not-for-profit service providers and the restriction arbitrarily imposed on them from providing additional hours where demand clearly exists.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not a legal issue at all, but I wish to see the detail of the agreement reached between the HSE and the for-profit providers. We are talking about global, multinational corporations. They are people who are in the business of making a huge amount of money. The Minister of State will be aware of my views on the private sector in health care. I see the Minister nodding beside the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The providers do not get a block grant. They are funded on a per hours basis. The Minister of State knows that. Saying they get a block grant is an attempt to make it sound as if they are part of the HSE or the Department of Health, which they clearly are not. The Minister of State knows they are not. Will she publish the details of the agreement that was reached between the Department...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Will the Minister of State answer my specific question? Will she publish the details?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 14. To ask the Minister for Health the exact initial work that has taken place on the 2017 capacity review; the exact arrangements being put in place for the review to date; the timeline of the work of the review for 2017; the reporting as part of the bed capacity review which will be due for the Estimates process; if this will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 32. To ask the Minister for Health the reason detailed 20 week routine scans for pregnant women are not provided routinely and offered to all patients; his plans to extend this facility from the current six maternity units to the 19 maternity units; the status of the development of the clinical guidelines for the provision of 20 week scans; when this will be completed; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 96. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE does not collect data on theatre use; if his attention has been further drawn to the number of hours for each operating theatre that are unused; the reason this data is not collected; if he will start a process of data collection to reflect this in view of its importance for waiting lists, bed capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Provision (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 103. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding the staffing difficulties that have meant transport of and transport timelines for priority 1 children called for heart and liver transplant to the United Kingdom cannot be guaranteed; the status of correspondence he has had with the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence; the status of all negotiations regarding this; the...

Order of Business (2 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it the Taoiseach's intention to bring legislation to the floor of the House to deal with the governance issues that have been raised? I submitted a Topical Issue, but it was rejected for discussion today. We are fooling nobody, even if we are fooling ourselves, if we do not regard the issue as topical. The governance arrangements have been the subject of much discussion, but the...

Order of Business (2 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I asked the Taoiseach if he would do so speedily.

Order of Business (2 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It is not included in the legislative programme.