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Other Questions: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister could put the bed capacity review to music and sing it at this stage. We have not seen it yet but the Minister talks about it all of the time.

Other Questions: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The NTPF is just another sticking plaster in the Government's box of Band-Aid. It is not going to work. It has been proven not to work. I am not asking the Minister to take my word for it; Dr. Sara Burke will tell the Minister that it does not work and does not have any long-term impact. It only works in the short term. It might get the Minister a headline or two but that is about it. ...

Other Questions: Health Services Data (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: What are the terms of reference of the review?

Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: For example, the Primary Care Reimbursement Service, PCRS, data for 2015 indicates excisions, cryotherapy and diathermy - basically, the removal of skin lesions - amounted to 156,996 procedures at a cost of nearly €4 million. Given that there will be a renegotiation of the general practitioner contract, there is substantial scope to give direct employment to practice nurses and reform...

Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is very simple. I ask the total subvention paid from the public purse to GPs on an itemised basis if possible. I do not expect the Minister to read out all the figures but to give us a flavour of them, if he would be so good.

Other Questions: HSE Expenditure (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister talks about wanting to make general practice an attractive option for GPs. It would be marvellous if it were an attractive option for practice nurses as well. A total of €81.6 million is spent on staffing, and a further several million - more than €21.5 million, I think - is spent on fee per procedure or fee per item. Does the Minister not think it would make...

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: That was a comprehensive and eloquent answer to a question I did not ask. I specifically asked about the 107 posts that were identified. Regrettably, we have all become used to accident and emergency department overcrowding. The staff, God love them, have to put up with it on a daily basis. Whatever plans this Government or the previous one had to deal with trolley numbers, they are now...

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The HSE personnel were clear with us when they said that funding was not available or forthcoming from the Department for the 107 additional posts that are required. Let us be clear, they are required to nurse the people who are on trolleys.

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The fact that people are on trolleys is a failure of Government policy, and nobody could dispute that. The HSE said, however, that there is no budget for those 107 nurses. What does the Minister say to the man or woman standing beside their elderly relative this evening who is on a trolley or in a chair in an accident and emergency department? It was agreed that 107 nurses is the absolute...

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 28. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to implement the recommendations of an expert group report in August 2016 which called for additional nursing posts to be created and filled to look after all admitted patients in emergency departments and extra patients on wards; the steps that have been taken to secure and retain nursing positions that have been advertised;...

Priority Questions: Nursing Staff Recruitment (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: The question is about staffing in emergency departments, which is a frequent issue and one which I am sure the Minister is looking forward to debating.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Health Information and Quality Authority (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I suspected that, which is why I asked the question.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Health Information and Quality Authority (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Quinn and the team for the presentation. Commissioning formed a substantial part of the submission. I have an issue with that. I do not see that the creation of internal markets is anything other than the last thing one does before one goes to full privatisation. I note all of the publicity, not only recently but over many years, on the lack of control we have when public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 49. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of neuro-rehabilitation services as a critical factor in the current trolley crisis, leading to delayed discharges and unnecessary admissions; the immediate steps he is taking to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4548/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 81. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ring-fence funds specifically for the necessary investment requirement for equipment and personnel for providing 20-week routine scans for pregnant women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4547/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 101. To ask the Minister for Health the exact initial work that has taken place on the 2017 capacity review; the exact arrangements being put in place for the review to date; the timeline of the work of the review for 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4546/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 125. To ask the Minister for Health further to the budget announcement of additional funding being made to the National Treatment Purchase Fund to outline the evaluation mechanisms in place to ensure value for money; the evaluation mechanisms in place to ensure satisfactory outcomes and number of treatments in accordance with the funding allocation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Road Openings (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the negotiations between his Department and a company (details supplied) for the taking in charge of the road from Tyrrelstown village to the primary school and community centre campus; and the timeline for the completion of such negotiations. [4703/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with the members of a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4774/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the concerns raised by the design team that have caused the delay in the building of phase 2 of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4775/17]