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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I have a fair amount of experience of this and mediation could never be compulsory. One cannot force someone to mediate because by its very nature mediation is voluntary. I certainly would not support any forced mediation purely because it would just not work. The question related to the actual disclosure itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I apologise if I was not clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Is that at all levels?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Is it also all disciplines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Cultural change is exactly what we need to drive.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 176. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 1 December 2016, the status of the development of the terms of reference, required membership and reporting relationship for the working group to bring forward appropriate decision criteria for the reimbursement of orphan medicines and technologies; the timeline for these actions or when they can be expected; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 177. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question number 93 of 1 December 2016, and in relation to the working group to bring forward appropriate decision criteria for the reimbursement of orphan medicines and technologies, the orphan medicines and technologies that will be considered; if there are any medicines earmarked that need to be evaluated under any new criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Letterkenny University Hospital has a waiting time for adult diabetes patients of 20 months for a repeat appointment with an endocrinologist, the highest in the State; the resourcing he intends to allocate to the hospital to address this crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39254/16]

Pension Equality and Fairness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I have spent the vast majority of my working life defending workers and their rights and I came in here to continue that work. That is why I believe this motion is so important. The impact of the gender pay gap is felt by women at every single level in society and most acutely by the cohort of women that will face retirement in the very near future. I appreciate that there are people in...

Personal Explanation by Member (7 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Hear, hear.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: On the same subject, the Minister for Health confirmed that the legislation would be published this session but we need to hear from the Taoiseach about whether the Government will be able to make good on that commitment and whether it will come straight to the floor of the Dáil or need to undergo pre-legislative scrutiny. When will the first child receive their medical card because...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Treatment Programmes (7 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all HSE funded alcohol addiction services by county in tabular form; the number of alcohol addiction counsellors by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38988/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Treatment Programmes (7 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the waiting lists for all HSE funded alcohol addiction services by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38989/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (7 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 234. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 41 and 65 of 1 December 2016, the meaning of competitive dialogue in respect of the future outsourcing of public patients; if there is an open and transparent tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39132/16]

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I note that my colleague, Deputy Ó Caoláin, spoke on this legislation in January of this year and that it has taken us almost a year to come back to Second Stage. I welcome the opportunity to discuss this legislation and other issues relating to the medical profession and safety in our health system. We have been told that this legislation is designed to protect the public and to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (6 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 345. To ask the Minister for Health the private hospitals and health providers that are under contract with the National Treatment Purchase Fund, his Department and the HSE with respect to the provision of services and surgeries that are not being met publicly or where there are extensive waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38601/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (6 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 348. To ask the Minister for Health the type of contracts that exist between his Department, the HSE, the National Treatment Purchase Fund and private hospitals in relation to treatments commissioned by the private sector; if contracts are awarded en bloc either in terms of funding allocated, speciality and so on or on a case by case basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (6 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the number of treatments commissioned from the private sector by the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each year since its inception in tabular form; the number of treatments commissioned from the private sector by his Department or the HSE in each of the past ten years if applicable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38603/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (6 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 347. To ask the Minister for Health the number of drugs where, following the NCPE, National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, assessment of the manufacturer's economic dossier on the cost effectiveness of a drug (details supplied), the NCPE found a drug not to be cost effective; if this information will be provided for each of the past five years with a breakdown of whether additional price...