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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Dr. Burke for coming here and for her presentation which, as ever, was incredibly informative. My first question relates to evidence the committee heard from Professor Allyson Pollock on universal access underpinned by legislation. What are Dr. Burke's views on whether it is preferable to put legislation in place and frantically work towards it or to incrementally build to a point...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: The one Fergal Bowers very kindly tweeted last week. It was the first I had heard of it.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes. It is the overall national structure. When I asked the Minister, he said it was to do with filling a vacancy at the level of assistant director general or similar.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: There will also be nine community healthcare organisations, CHOs, all of which will have their own internal structures too.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: There is another layer again, given that the CHOs will have their own internal structures. There is an awful lot of structure.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Yes, but the hospital groups do not match with the CHOs. If Dr. Burke could fix it for us, that would be grand.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to raise the questions of structures. I do not want to get bogged down because I spent enough of my life dealing with them to want to leave them behind. I wish to raise the issue of local versus national accountability. I am aware of the Carlow-Kilkenny model - I am not sold on it as the be-all and end-all, as there are as many problems as there are fantastic things going on there -...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Citizen-Centred Health Care: Civil Engagement (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Senator Dolan referenced Article 40, on the right to form associations. That article is the basis from which I made a good living and is an issue about which I feel very strongly. I would like to explore the journey from advocacy to service provision. I am not sure I share all the Senator's views on the role of the State in this regard but I recognise that there is a replication in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on further delay of provision of rapid build homes in Dublin; the number of these units which will be tenanted in Dublin at the end of 2016 and at the end of each quarter of 2017. [28700/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (5 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide an updated list of all social housing capital projects currently within the four stage approval process, stating the status of the process, when the funds for each project will be drawn down, the value of these funds and when these units will be tenanted. [28701/16]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (4 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Obviously, I am here to discuss the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill but given that Deputy MacSharry raised the issue of home helps and home help hours, I would say for the record that, unlikely him, I do not accept that the cupboard is bare in terms of resources. In fact, the cupboard is far from bare. The problem lies with the officials who stand between those who need the services...

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I am delighted the Taoiseach brought up the all-Ireland final. Although I was not going to mention it, I am glad to have the opportunity to say "Well done" to the Dubs. Is the assisted human reproduction Bill delayed because we are awaiting the report on funding options? If so, could the Taoiseach tell us when we will receive the report? If not, could the Taoiseach tell us when the heads...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hepatitis C Compensation Payments (4 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 399. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with a person (details supplied) in relation to the contamination of anti-D; if his attention has been drawn to a commitment made in May 2012 by former Minister Reilly to re-examine this issue and the compensation schemes; if his attention has further been drawn to a Trinity College study being undertaken on this; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 401. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ask the HSE to introduce the butterfly scheme in all Irish hospitals in view of the growing prevalence of dementia here and the findings of the first Irish national audit of dementia care in acute hospitals in 2014 that highlighted the lack of standardised care for persons with dementia in Irish hospitals. [28268/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Plant Protection Products (4 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Ireland is one of the 15 EU member states to oppose the EU Commission proposal for criteria for endocrine disruptors; the Government position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28660/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (4 Oct 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with Bus Éireann and the Department of Health to erect a bus shelter at a location (details supplied) in order that patients after brain rehabilitation are sufficiently resourced with public transport and that they can re-learn to use bus transport as part of the rehabilitative process; and if he will make a...

Report of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Motion (29 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to start by thanking Deputy Shortall for proposing this committee. It was a good idea and the fact that it was embraced by people from all parties very quickly is a testament to that. Nonetheless, it did take someone to start the conversation. On behalf of myself and my party, I thank Deputy Shortall. I wish to reiterate what I said only a few short months ago on the establishment...

Report of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Motion (29 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Re-reading this after our meeting yesterday really set the alarm bells going in my head. In 1990 in Britain, the direct management of health services by health authorities was ended and replaced with purchasers and providers, turning hospitals into trusts with borrowing powers, their own finance, human resources and public relations departments. Good luck with that if the Government tries...

Other Questions: Property Tax Exemptions (29 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance the flexibility that exists in respect of exemption from local property tax, LPT, due to pyritic damage where the property was remediated prior to the introduction of LPT; if those persons who availed of the exemption in good faith and were advised that they could apply for the exemption, but who subsequently are being pursued for back-payment of the LPT,...

Other Questions: Property Tax Exemptions (29 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 18. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a situation between the Revenue Commissioners and residents of an estate (details supplied) where the Revenue Commissioners are looking for the retrospective payment of the property tax, despite residents having been in receipt of the pyritic damage exemption up until 2016; if he will examine the situation where these...