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Other Questions: General Medical Services Scheme (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is self-explanatory. It refers to the practice of general practitioners charging patients covered by the general medical services, GMS, scheme for blood tests. The Minister accepted in reply to a previous question I asked that general practitioners should not charge for these tests. I am interested in hearing what precisely he proposes to do to stop this practice.

Other Questions: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, I do have permission but I believe the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is asking if we can reverse the order of the questions. I do not mind. I am easy.

Other Questions: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Does the Leas-Cheann Comhairle want to take the next question from Deputy Kelleher?

Other Questions: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 41. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries cancelled in each month to January 2017 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4549/17]

Other Questions: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: My question is fairly self-explanatory. I do not need 30 seconds to introduce it.

Other Questions: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I am sure the Minister is as aware as I am that the full capacity protocol was initiated in one particular hospital on over 80% of the days in question, with 50% being the average across our hospitals. One of the things that happens when the full capacity protocol is activated is that elective procedures are cancelled. One of the other things that happens is that the people who have had...

Other Questions: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister could put the bed capacity review to music and sing it at this stage. We have not seen it yet but the Minister talks about it all of the time.

Other Questions: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The NTPF is just another sticking plaster in the Government's box of Band-Aid. It is not going to work. It has been proven not to work. I am not asking the Minister to take my word for it; Dr. Sara Burke will tell the Minister that it does not work and does not have any long-term impact. It only works in the short term. It might get the Minister a headline or two but that is about it. ...

Other Questions: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: What are the terms of reference of the review?

Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: For example, the Primary Care Reimbursement Service, PCRS, data for 2015 indicates excisions, cryotherapy and diathermy - basically, the removal of skin lesions - amounted to 156,996 procedures at a cost of nearly €4 million. Given that there will be a renegotiation of the general practitioner contract, there is substantial scope to give direct employment to practice nurses and reform...

Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is very simple. I ask the total subvention paid from the public purse to GPs on an itemised basis if possible. I do not expect the Minister to read out all the figures but to give us a flavour of them, if he would be so good.

Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister talks about wanting to make general practice an attractive option for GPs. It would be marvellous if it were an attractive option for practice nurses as well. A total of €81.6 million is spent on staffing, and a further several million - more than €21.5 million, I think - is spent on fee per procedure or fee per item. Does the Minister not think it would make...

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That was a comprehensive and eloquent answer to a question I did not ask. I specifically asked about the 107 posts that were identified. Regrettably, we have all become used to accident and emergency department overcrowding. The staff, God love them, have to put up with it on a daily basis. Whatever plans this Government or the previous one had to deal with trolley numbers, they are now...

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The HSE personnel were clear with us when they said that funding was not available or forthcoming from the Department for the 107 additional posts that are required. Let us be clear, they are required to nurse the people who are on trolleys.

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The fact that people are on trolleys is a failure of Government policy, and nobody could dispute that. The HSE said, however, that there is no budget for those 107 nurses. What does the Minister say to the man or woman standing beside their elderly relative this evening who is on a trolley or in a chair in an accident and emergency department? It was agreed that 107 nurses is the absolute...

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 28. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to implement the recommendations of an expert group report in August 2016 which called for additional nursing posts to be created and filled to look after all admitted patients in emergency departments and extra patients on wards; the steps that have been taken to secure and retain nursing positions that have been advertised;...

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is about staffing in emergency departments, which is a frequent issue and one which I am sure the Minister is looking forward to debating.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Health Information and Quality Authority (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I suspected that, which is why I asked the question.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Health Information and Quality Authority (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Quinn and the team for the presentation. Commissioning formed a substantial part of the submission. I have an issue with that. I do not see that the creation of internal markets is anything other than the last thing one does before one goes to full privatisation. I note all of the publicity, not only recently but over many years, on the lack of control we have when public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 49. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of neuro-rehabilitation services as a critical factor in the current trolley crisis, leading to delayed discharges and unnecessary admissions; the immediate steps he is taking to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4548/17]