Results 11,341-11,360 of 12,424 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise for interrupting, but I want to know for how many elderly people the single assessment tool was used last year, for how many people it will be used and the grades and categories of staff who will be involved in using it.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: There will certainly be a willingness on the part of home helps to do so. I represented them for years. They were looking for regulation from the Minister's predecessors. They are more than willing to put themselves on a more secure footing because it can be a precarious form of employment when it should not be. It is an area that we can definitely say is going to grow. How many...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: My information was that packages were not delivered, but, again, I am happy to be corrected.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: As I understand it, a dispute threatened in the National Ambulance Service last year. It related to some reports, one of which the Minister has referenced; I understand there are two reports. As part of the settlement of that dispute, NAS indicated that it was going to go abroad to try to recruit people and that it had been given a licence to do so - I think that was the term used although...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: We would like to think it is all about consistency.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I sincerely hope the industrial action does not materialise before that report is received. It would be helpful to those people facing the prospect of industrial action - it is not something they would do lightly – to hear of the willingness to resolve the matter and keep DFB as an integral part of the ambulance and paramedic service provision for the people of Dublin. The Minister...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Turning to an earlier discussion I have just had to leave to take a phone call and I had a quick squint at the newspapers. It appears that the operation for the young woman who was on "The Late Late Show", Megan Halvey-Ryan, due for 9 March, has now been cancelled as confirmed by her mother Sharon. I wonder about the extent to which we are in a room listening to figures - and with respect,...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It was not my intention either, it was just that it came up and it is relevant because we had been discussing scoliosis specifically.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I fully accept everybody wants to end the suffering of the young woman and some of the pictures are so distressing. I appreciate if it was a case of signing the form it would have been signed and we would not be having this conversation. I do not ask the questions for anything other than information. Must the person who signs off on it be in Ireland in the Twenty-six Counties?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I have not seen any other format.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (2 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

Other Questions: School Enrolments (1 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Will the Minister come back to us with a date?

Other Questions: School Enrolments (1 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I raised this matter with the Minister two weeks ago. The problem for these parents is very real. It is not good enough for the Minister to say that he or his officials believe that somehow the capacity exists, when it does not. These parents are ringing the schools every day and asking for places because they are absolutely desperate. We need to know what measures the Minister is going...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contact his Department has had with primary schools in the Swords area in respect of their junior infant capacity; if these schools have been met with collectively to review enrolment figures; the details of his Department's assessment that the need of junior infants enrolling in the schools in the Swords area will be met by the available...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (1 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the demographic review and need for school places in the Swords area; if, further to the parliamentary debate on 15 February 2017, he has brought to the attention of his Department the fact that children are being denied places for September 2017; if he is reviewing the enrolment figures as indicated; when a decision will be made...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (1 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the distribution of specialist registrars to every hospital across the State for each of the years 2006 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [10585/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (1 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 272. To ask the Minister for Health the value of private activity in public hospitals by publicly employed consultants on type B contracts for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10627/17]

Other Questions: Property Tax Exemptions (28 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: May I ask a question on the same issue?

Other Questions: Property Tax Exemptions (28 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I have raised this issue with the Minister previously, at which time he indicated he would ask the Department to examine it. The response received was to the effect that the Minister is not prepared to do anything. This is a growing problem not only in Fingal but across the country. There are people whose homes are effectively valueless yet they have to pay the property tax. I echo Deputy...