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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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Deaths (2 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 824. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19336/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Deaths (2 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 825. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the details of the findings of the investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19337/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (2 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 990. To ask the Minister for Health the services that will be available in the new primary care centre in Balbriggan; the services which will be directly provided by HSE staff, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19998/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (2 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 991. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE staff by grade that will be employed in the new primary care centre in Balbriggan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (2 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 992. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional general practitioners that will provide services in Balbriggan as part of the new primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20002/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 1022. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for services (details supplied) at University Hospital Galway, in respect of both outpatient and inpatient appointments, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20168/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Apr 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the inspection of places of detention Bill. This is to provide for the inspection of all places of detention, including prisons. The Bill is supposed to include provisions to enable the ratification of the United Nations optional protocol on the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Last November, a...

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The chaos caused by the Tánaiste's Government is starting to get out of control. Its mismanagement has led to chaos in our justice system, chaos in transport and chaos in governance, but perhaps the most stark and painful is the chaos in our hospitals. Waiting lists continue to soar. Exhausted and demoralised staff are leaving in droves, there is a dangerous lack of capacity in our...

Leaders' Questions (13 Apr 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: In January, the numbers on trolleys hit a record level. The Government is fond of setting records. Unfortunately, none of them is very good or useful. The Tánaiste paints a rosy picture of all the things she would like to do and all the developments she says are happening. Would she like to go down to any of the 409 people waiting on trolleys today and tell them about her great plan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The purpose of this meeting is to engage with officials from the Department of Health and representatives of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, PSI, on Deputy Gino Kenny's Private Members' Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Eugene Lennon, principal officer, and Ms Maria Egan, pharmacist, at the medicines and controlled drugs unit in...