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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...

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

Louise O'Reilly: The procurer could not collect-----

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

Louise O'Reilly: That only applies to your own hospital.

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

Louise O'Reilly: That is fine.

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

Louise O'Reilly: They are all directly employed in the Beacon.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Perhaps Mr. Nugent could enlighten us as to the number of directly employed staff.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Can Mr. Fitzgerald give us a view on the reasons? I understand that he may not know, but he has experience in the public and private systems. He knows people who maintain they can do so much more in one than another. I have my views on the reasons, by the way. Does Mr. Fitzgerald have a view on why that is the case?

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

Louise O'Reilly: There is no difference in the actual practice. It is not in any way, shape or form more or less efficient. It is simply a question of the availability of beds.

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

Louise O'Reilly: The point I am making is that it is no more efficient; it is simply to do with the person.

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

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to come in again. Mr. Fitzgerald has said there are no unions in his workplace. I would be interested in finding out whether that is a policy or whether it is simply because they are there. My next question is for Mr. Nugent. We have discussed at length the differences between the public and the private sectors and we all acknowledge...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 173. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the hospital waiting lists in County Donegal that have availed of health care under the NTPF or the cross-Border health care directive for each of the years 2011 to 2016, inclusive, and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [2068/17]