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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in receipt of home tuition in Fingal; the total number of hours provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6270/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (8 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the rate of progress in the seven universities of the implementation of the Cush report; the reason there are delays in the operation of the report in the universities; if parity of esteem for other workers employed in universities with two years service will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6312/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 220. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6264/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (7 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 400. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will consider including a new blood-glucose-monitoring system using skin sensors; when the HSE is due to meet the manufacturers of FreeStyle Libre; if he will provide an update on this meeting; if the manufacturer has made a completed application to the HSE for reimbursement of the device under the community drugs scheme; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (7 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 401. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 41 persons with disabilities moved into institutions in 2015, as revealed in the recently published 2015 annual report from the implementation group for Time to Move On From Congregated Settings: A Strategy for Community Inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5585/17]

Committee Report on Garda Oversight and Accountability: Motion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this important Oireachtas committee report into Garda oversight and accountability and I join colleagues in commending the Chairman, an Teachta Ó Caoláin, for progressing it. The report is a comprehensive document that provides an outline of the Garda oversight mechanisms currently in place, with the committee hearings functioning to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Page 58 of the programme for Government commits to reducing emergency department overcrowding. I know from an answer given to my colleague, Deputy McDonald, that those in government are not massive fans of equal pay for work of equal value. They are very lucky that they are not getting paid by results. A total of 601 people were on hospital trolleys yesterday and there are nearly 520...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, I want an answer to my specific question, please.

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: What is she doing that is new?

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That is nothing new.

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The Deputy needs to calm down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That seems unlikely, Chairman

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I was struck by a statement in one of the submissions to the effect that proposals to address the shortage of GPs by transferring tasks to other health care professionals are not in the interests of patients or the State and then it continued with a list of bad things that might happen. That flies in the face of the evidence and reports we have heard about skill mix and it ties into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: In what way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I do not accept that. Changing the name on the payslip for the woman or the man who is a member of the practice staff would not, I imagine, in any way dilute their loyalty, commitment or ability to care for patients. However, it would alleviate a lot of what the witnesses tell us are the burdens of running a small business and all of that. I have spoken to GPs and one of the things they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That is the patients' perception.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Would Dr. Byrne accept that sending patients to hospitals for blood tests is a backward step?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I have seen notices in GP surgeries to the effect that patients who cannot afford to pay for blood tests should seek to have them done at a hospital. Many of these people are patients who need blood tests and cannot face having to go to a hospital to have them done. How does one square that circle? My understanding is that the HSE is of the view that this is a service, regardless of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I accept that challenge; they are turning themselves away.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: GPs are putting that notice up and making the position very clear. If a person does not have the money to pay for it, they can go to the hospital and if they cannot face the hospital they go home and worry.