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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: If there are two patients in an accident and emergency department, with one private and one public, but there is only one bed left and a need to generate income, how is that decision made?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: With regard to recruitment and contracts, are the limits on movement applicable under the Lansdowne Road agreement, which if memory serves me correctly is no more than 50 km in terms of a round-trip, being adhered to? For example, is it possible that a person recruited to work in Galway could be transferred to work in Letterkenny?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I presume that those limits will apply to all of the other groups, nationally, unless renegotiated?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I presume the board will be an administrative or shadow board until the necessary legislation is introduced.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: How is the chairperson selected?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I would like to clarify one particular point. Deputy Brassil referred to the morale of nurses working in the University of Limerick Hospital, many of whom I know because I represented them for many years. An article in the media dated 9 November refers to nurses going home in tears because of unmanageable workloads. I suggest that the nurses in the University of Limerick Hospital are not...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the delegates for coming. I have some general questions and some that are area-specific. I will start with the general questions. In the last session we discussed the income targets in the generation of private income for public hospitals. I ask the delegates to outline the contingency arrangements if they do not hit these targets. If they find themselves short, what services...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: It has not been published. As I am sure she is writing it, Dr. O'Reilly has seen it. Will it include specific timeframes and targets? This and the other committee have discussed the national children's hospital. I have discussed it directly with Ms Hardiman. We all know that tri-location is best for children and mothers. When will a planning application be made for the location of the...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Ms Day said she looks at non-clinical areas, which is good and is progress because at least we know someone will be looking at something, but what does she mean by non-clinical areas? My experience of the health service is everything that could be cut was cut with regard to staying away from service delivery. All non-pay elements that could be cut were cut. I do not know where Ms Day would...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: With respect, why would Ms Day not be getting them anyway?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: This strikes me as something that should be done anyway.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Would Ms Day not have factored into the budget for the year potential savings from generic drugs?

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIV-AIDS Programmes (16 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE seeks to provide pre-exposure prophylaxis medication in view of its effectiveness in preventing HIV infection. [35349/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (15 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Question No. 66 of 3 November 2016, whereby in Irish universities some staff receive permanency whereas others, mainly non-academic staff, have recourse to only one-, two- and three-year fixed-term contracts; the number of these staff that have had permanent and pensionable contracts provided to them since 2009; the years in which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (15 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 461. To ask the Minister for Health if attention has been drawn to the fact there is no chiropody or podiatry service in health centres in County Kildare despite the building of a primary care centre which is due to open early 2017; the action that will be taken to ensure public provision of these services in view of the fact that currently vouchers are provided towards the cost of private...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (15 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 473. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 405 of 25 October 2016, the discussions that are taking place to extend antenatal services to the new primary care centre in Balbriggan; the persons or bodies the discussions are with; the services that are being considered to be extended; the additional staffing requirements that would be required; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (15 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 479. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to defer the lifetime MSM blood donation ban to the one year deferral period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34553/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (15 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 510. To ask the Minister for Health the counties which have local implementation structures in place across the country further to the plans outlined in Connecting for Life; the counties that have produced local suicide prevention action plans; when the remaining local plans will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34650/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (15 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 552. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the general waiting list for orthodontic diagnostics at Merlin Park, University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34899/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (15 Nov 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 553. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the general waiting list for orthodontic diagnostics at University Hospital Galway due to the lack of a suitable dental X-ray machine in the radiography department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34900/16]