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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: How many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Is this the team that will be developing it or the team dealing with it when the critical incident happens?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: How many and at what grade? If the information is not to hand, that is fine. We are happy for it to be sent to the committee following the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I asked two questions that were not answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Does Mr. Woods accept that the number of patients to nurses is far above that ratio across much of the acute sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Could the correspondence also be circulated to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I asked a question about advanced nurse practitioners, ANPs. I wish to be very clear because we are short of time and possibly patience at this stage, although not in my case. There are 78 advanced nurse practitioners, but there should be 150. This time next year, if we are all lucky enough to be back, how many more ANPs will there be, taking into account the fact that some of them must be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: On my question about the number this time next year, will we be lucky to have 78, that is, if some do not retire?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I have an idea what it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That is fair enough.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Dr. Turner for his presentation. In the course of his presentation Dr. Turner states that he does not believe an entirely single-tier system for all health services is achievable but I would be interested to learn if he thinks we should aspire to a single-tier system, if nothing else. I understand that we are the only country, bar the US, that does not have a single-tier system....

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Dr. Turner has outlined the embedded nature of privatisation and private health care in the health service. As the Chairman has correctly pointed out, we cannot prevent people from purchasing private health insurance. The biggest single incentive to not purchase private health insurance is getting what one needs from the public system. Should we not aspire to that situation,...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Dr. Brian Turner (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Dr. Brian Turner referred to the possibility of medical staff giving back after their education and training. It is an issue with which I have a problem. This is never suggested for architects or anyone else who has the capacity to avail of a good education system. Can we find a way to incentivise our health professionals? It is not that long ago when nurses left college, went abroad for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide a room to the IBTS for its services in the new Balbriggan primary care centre when it opens; if he or the HSE will engage with the IBTS on the way in which the new primary care centres can be used for this purpose to avoid having to use hotels and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3338/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 232. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on eligibility criteria and guidelines for pre-exposure prophylaxis to be defined by the national sexual health strategy, either listed criteria or a release date for when the criteria will be released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3448/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 233. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the implementation group for the national sexual health strategy specifically pertaining to making pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) available; the persons on the implementation group; the frequency they meet; the timeframe to their objective regarding PrEP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3449/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 234. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the demonstration project testing pre-exposure prophylaxis; the timeframe for same; the number of participants that will be involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3450/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the State’s spend on HIV prevention since 2005, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3451/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the State’s subsidy to the gay men’s health service since 2005, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3452/17]