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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Funding (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Is the Minister saying that if these targets are not met, his Department will come in and meet the shortfall? I do not think he is. That is not realistic and I do not think the hospitals believe it is realistic. I specifically asked the Minister where the cuts will be made because when the unrealistic targets - to use the term these people used - are not met, as they very well might not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 44. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an initiative he is reported to be taking with a European bloc of countries to negotiate collectively to lower prices of drugs; the status of meetings that he and officials from his Department have had with their European counterparts on this; the way in which he will proceed on this; if targets have been set; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 46. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department will take to increase capacity in acute hospitals and their emergency departments in view of the fact that the full capacity protocol was deployed 2,300 times across a 321-day period in 2016; if the full capacity protocol is the last escalation step in the national system-wide escalation framework and is now being used with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 80. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 558 of 15 November 2016, if the parameters and terms of reference for the bed capacity review have been set; the status of the bed capacity review; the person or body that will undertake this review; the timeframe for the review; when this will conclude; the definition of a bed in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Private Partnerships Data (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 66. To ask the Minister for Health the level of PFI, private finance initiative, or PPP, public private partnership, that currently exists in the health system; the details of any hospitals, primary care centres or other infrastructure and capital that is currently financed under PFI or PPP; the details of all such contracts; the annual PFI and PPP charges on each of these and in total...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (1 Dec 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 90. To ask the Minister for Health the data that exists relating to the number of treatments commissioned from the private sector versus the number of treatments carried out; the number, type and value of services and surgeries commissioned from the private sector; the number, type and value, the cost to the State and savings to the state of services and surgeries carried out by the private...

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: According to the latest daft.ierental report, from which several people have quoted from, rent in my constituency is on average €1,320 per month. That is a 3.8% increase since the second quarter of the year and a 12.1% increase on last year. Indeed, with the exception of four and five-bed houses, the average rent for properties in the area in which I live and in the constituency that...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Woods for their attendance and presentation. Mr. O'Brien made many references to the trend that we are moving more towards emergency and away from elective procedures. My position is that the HSE is not serious about tackling this. I see no evidence of a systematic plan to deal with the issue. From the response to a parliamentary question I tabled recently, we...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Does that mean that there are 19 within each CHO cluster?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: They are based within each CHO.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Does Mr. O'Brien understand we have been looking at this issue for quite some time and plenty of us have lots of experience? As Deputy Kate O'Connell pointed out, it is not an eye-opener. Nevertheless, it is very confusing. Can Mr. O'Brien imagine what it is like for a patient who is trying to navigate through it? It is next to impossible. It seems that when we look at it from the...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Mr. O'Brien does not need to convince me. I am already convinced. I just do not believe that Mr. O'Brien has any plan and I consequently cannot help but come to the conclusion that he has not prioritised the conversion of agency staff into directly employed staff. Mr. O'Brien is presiding over a health service that is a deeply unattractive place for health professionals and support staff...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: With targets.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: It is right across the health service. It concerns support staff as well.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: When the IMO was before the committee, it pointed out to us that money ranked as number four in terms of the issues for doctors. It is not just about money. It cannot be reduced to that.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: There are no targets for that. Mr. O'Brien would be very quick to set targets for both accident and emergency department times and existing staff but there are no targets for this.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: My question on the full-capacity protocol was not addressed. I also want to correct a figure I gave. I said the figure for Tullamore hospital was 511 but it is 230.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: No, the figure is 230 and 511 for the group.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: HSE (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Does Mr. O'Brien agree that five days a week in Tullamore general hospital since January is not acceptable?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (30 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 152. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision is expected on the drug respreeza zemaira; the status of the assessment by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics; the outcome when the compassionate use of the drug to patients runs out at the end of December 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37989/16]