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Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the assisted human reproduction Bill. I want to know when the general scheme of legislative provisions dealing with assisted human reproduction will be published. I have asked quite a number of parliamentary questions about this and the Minister has advised that officials in the Department were drafting the general scheme of legislative provisions....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of international public funding models for fertility treatment; when the general scheme of legislative provisions dealing with assisted human reproduction, AHR, will be published; the timeframe for the legislation dealing with AHR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2585/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 471. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to extend the meningitis B vaccine beyond those babies born after October 2016; if he has received any submissions on this vaccine; if any reimbursement has been made to those who paid if their babies were born before that time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (24 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 494. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1147 of 17 January 2017, when the newly appointed director of the HSE national women and infants health programme will meet with a person (details supplied) on the issue of foetal anomaly scanning; if contact has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3147/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for their attendance and their comprehensive presentations. I have a number of questions. The first is for Ms Leahy. She mentioned community midwifery services in her presentation. I am specifically interested in knowing how geared up are the primary care centres at present. I suspect I know the answer to this question but will ask it anyway. How geared up are they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. We have been given a comprehensive overview of the reality as it is experienced by those working in the maternity services. There are probably people present who could give the perspective of those who have availed of the maternity services. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that the HSE is not in any way, shape or form serious about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I appreciate that it will be included, but why was it left out? Would it not have been better to include it in the first place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. Woods was asked very specific questions about recruitment and retention. I have said many times that there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians. We have heard about the comprehensive plan for the recruitment of chiefs, which is to be welcomed, but what about the Indians? Not only can the HSE not recruit them, it cannot keep them. Does it have a plan? Does it have a target, as I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I understand the total is down by 350. The figures do not add up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: We are talking specifically about midwives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Therefore, when the INMO states the number is down by 350, it is wrong. It is not usually wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms Fitzgerald has said she will provide the figures. The recruitment of 88 midwives is a good news story and I appreciate that she wants to keep telling us about it. If the HSE is running to stand still, it is doing well because I think the numbers leaving, for various reasons, are not being matched by the numbers being recruited.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Will Ms Fitzgerald let us have the actual figures? I am not referring to the 88 who have been recruited because we have heard about them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: How close is the number to the ratio?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: We have six and ten.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I have to leave but before I do, Mr. Woods might confirm that that meeting will be arranged as I took another call from a very distressed women this morning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes. I will provide those but I hope Mr. Woods will still be here when I return.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 55. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of all operational Garda stations in the State, inclusive of address and contact number, in tabular form; if this information is readily available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2259/17]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. Mr. Fitzgerald said that too often there is an ideological debate about private health care. I would say that too often there is not. As I understand it, there is no crisis in respect of recruitment and retention in the private sector. That exists in the public sector. How do rates of pay for the staff in the private sector compare with...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a brief supplementary question. The witness said the association has not had cause to collect the information but we are talking about issues around value for money and comparison, the cost of overnight stays and the cost of care. That information has not been provided to the HSE so it would not form part of any service level agreement or anything like that with the HSE. That is no...