Results 11,561-11,580 of 12,474 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given by his Department to using the land immediately adjacent to a school (details supplied) for a recreation area for pupils accommodated in the school pending the completion of phase 2, which is potentially more than two years overdue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4780/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 273. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning behind question 52 on the new IBTS questionnaire for blood donation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4803/17]

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I would be glad if the Taoiseach supported it.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: When will it commence?

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Some of them are listening to this discussion. It is cruel.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The parents of these children will stay on the streets protesting. The Taoiseach should be ashamed.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The programme for Government, underpinned by a Sinn Féin motion which received cross-party support, commits the Government to the granting of an automatic medical card for children in receipt of domiciliary care allowance. The Taoiseach has told me repeatedly that it is on its way. Yet, this morning representatives from Our Children's Health were on the streets outside the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (31 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 601. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision to exclude medical card holders and families with coeliac disease from availing of gluten-free products under the scheme. [4532/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (31 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the financial hardship endured by many persons and families with coeliac disease due to the costs of purchasing many gluten-free products; and his plans to either directly or in co-operation with other Departments improve supports to these persons and families [4533/17]

Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I am not sure if the Minister of State is aware of the issue involving over-capacity difficulties regarding children under six for GP care. The reality would have been lost in a lot of the hoopla, backslapping and self-congratulation that went on around the granting of medical cards to children under the age of six. The unfortunate reality is that the failure to plan on the part of this...

Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The short answer is that it has not really helped. It does not solve the problem this morning, this afternoon, this evening or tonight when people are going to need to see their GPs. It is all very well to say there are X number of children in the system who are eligible for access to this scheme but it is actually completely useless to those people who simply cannot access it. I wonder if...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I will be as brief as I can, but this is an expansive subject. My questions are directed at all of the delegates. The programme for Government gives a commitment to the establishment of a performance management unit. What are the delegates' views in that regard? Do they think it would have a chance of working or would it just be like the special delivery unit and not deliver anything...

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

Louise O'Reilly: While the witness is on that subject, is he saying that the request for agencies is only being met about 60% of the time?

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

Louise O'Reilly: Does he think that is because the 40% that are absent and not available to turn up for a shift have been converted into direct labour?

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

Louise O'Reilly: Thank you.

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

Louise O'Reilly: And neither of us has enough anyway. We do not have anything to share.

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

Louise O'Reilly: When we had the HSE representatives here before, the hospital groups described what they called "stretch targets". Based on what patients got from private medicine last year, they would now have a stretch target on top of that from private income. I asked the HSE to explain, if there were two patients on trolleys - one with private health insurance and one without - which one of them would...

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

Louise O'Reilly: It is certainly not in operation, even if it exists on paper.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise for missing the first bit of the meeting. I had a matter to attend to but I read the submission. Representatives from ICTU were before us earlier and they referred to a report commissioned and published in August 2016 which recommended that 107 nurses be employed to nurse patients already admitted and on trolleys. They advised us that, as of last Friday, there was no provision...

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

Louise O'Reilly: I ask Ms Fitzgerald to return to the numbers. To be fair to the representatives from the ICTU, they were very clear that last Friday they were told with regard to nurses specifically designated under the report issued in August for bedside nursing-----