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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and direct delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: I have made inquiries and have been informed by the Health Service Executive that an answer issued to the Deputy on 2 March 2006.

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: Having made inquiries regarding this matter, my Department understands that the Health Service Executive has already replied to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to have this matter investigated and reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to have this matter investigated and reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (9 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Seanad: Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (9 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: It is difficult to try and sum up on this debate. I commend the Senators who have spoken on this difficult subject. When the history of medicine is looked at in the future, the Lourdes hospital report will be seen as a watershed for the practice of medicine in Ireland. Many of us can only speak from our own life history. Last Sunday my mother was 93 years of age. She was a midwife all her...

Seanad: Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (9 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: I do not know how the Tánaiste and the medical profession will drive forward the findings of this report but that is indefensible behaviour and we must do everything to ensure it never happens again. The judge also stated in the report: Obstetricians should keep a fair balance between private work and clinical contractual commitments. Private practice should not be so onerous that...

Seanad: Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (9 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Government last week published Judge Maureen Harding Clark's report on peripartum hysterectomy at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. In launching the report, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children was conscious that the last few years have been particularly difficult and traumatic for many former patients of the maternity unit at Drogheda. I also want to express my...

Seanad: Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (9 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: One of the most remarkable findings in the report is that few people complained or questioned. Management and staff reasoned that they did not deal with the high rate of peripartum hysterectomy at Drogheda because they were not informed, all the hysterectomies were carried out for a very good reason, there was no audit and because no one knew what was an acceptable rate. The inquiry found...

Seanad: Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements. (9 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The number of caesarean hysterectomies carried out by Dr. Neary in 1978 and 1979 caused the matron of the time some concern but her concerns were not heeded. No other person or institution raised any issues until October 1998 when two midwives, who were consulting the health board solicitor on an unrelated matter, sought his advice on serious concerns which one of them had about Dr. Neary's...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the employment of people with disabilities, which is the responsibility of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Accordingly, the Deputy may wish to contact the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in this regard.

Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Members on all sides for their contributions. Judge Harding Clark has produced a comprehensive and fair assessment of the events at Drogheda. The challenge before us is to ensure that the various lessons are quickly taken on board by the health system as a whole and not just in respect of maternity services. I express my deepest regret and apologise to those women and their families...

Lourdes Hospital Inquiry: Statements (Resumed). (8 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: Yesterday, the Government approved the publication of the general scheme of the Bill providing for the establishment of the Health Information and Quality Authority on a statutory basis. Deputies are aware of the Tánaiste's opinion that there should be a licensing system in place for all hospitals. The Department will consider the mechanisms required to put it and, at a later stage, an...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Mar 2006)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.