Results 11,421-11,440 of 12,474 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I want to correct some of the misinformation that was presented by Deputy Niall Collins earlier. Sinn Féin is in favour of workers and the rights of workers. Fianna Fáil is as anti-worker today as it was when it cut the minimum wage. I am proud to be the daughter of a trade union organiser. I worked as a trade union organiser for many years. The Government is seeking to deny...
- Industrial Relations (Right to Access) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I repeat that assertion now. Nobody who has ever been at the coalface of union organising would do anything to stand in the way of this legislation. Anyone who has ever tried to organise workers, as I did when I sat with them in their kitchens, in my car and in the back rooms of pubs, knows that workers are terrified when they think the whole world is on the side of their bosses. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister, the Ministers of State and the delegation from the HSE. I have a few questions so I ask the Chairman for his indulgence. First, we discussed this issue previously and Mr. Woods will remember the discussion about the 107 nurses required in accident and emergency departments. I refer to an agreement reached between the HSE and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I asked about the NTPF as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I have a keen interest in seeing the end of the NTPF, as the Minister well knows.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: Why did I get a response saying that the Department is currently reviewing with the HSE and the Department of Social Protection the data in respect of the number of children covered by domiciliary care allowance who do not have a medical card to get the most accurate possible current estimate of the net additional cost of granting medical cards to this group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: Emigration might be another reason for the decrease in the number of people with medical cards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: "Let's keep the recovery going".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: If the review finds out that the cost is more than €10 million-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: That will be accommodated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: Nothing will delay it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: It has been delayed for long enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: For the record, I do not think this is a slight delay. I think it is a huge delay for people who are waiting on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the fact that they will see it soon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: I want to come back to the NTPF.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: It has been stated in response to a question that the performance of each hospital in the context of listed criteria will be monitored on a constant basis. My reading of the reply is that it would be monitored on a constant basis by the NTPF. It is a State agency but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: Do the senior staff in the NTPF work for the fund or for another State agency? Are they on secondment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: Is it a substantive post as opposed to a post within the HSE? The staff in the Department, the HSE and the NTPF are closely connected. Officials who worked for the HSE now work for the NTPF and there is interchangeability. The reply to the question is, "the performance will be monitored". Is the Minister satisfied that there is robust monitoring of the NTPF by the NTPF itself, which is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: Who will monitor the NTPF.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Louise O'Reilly: NTPF staff compiled the lists about which RTE made the programme. The Minister can understand why people will question the NTPF but when committee members do, the answer is that the NTPF monitors itself. That is not a satisfactory answer.