Results 12,001-12,020 of 12,474 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Is there scope for improvement if new technology and near patient testing were introduced? There has been decades of under investment and there are more reasons that people cannot access hospitals. Is there a role in GP practices in disadvantaged areas, specifically to offset some of the problems created by delays in accessing hospitals, as outlined by Dr. Gibney? In terms of a higher...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Dr. Delap says it is not used. Is that because it is not equipped or because there is no need for it?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Would salaries go some way towards-----

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: It is about time and resources. If one had them, one could attend a nursing home for a half day and have those conversations and it would be significantly less likely that a person would opt to transfer to an emergency department, which might not be the most appropriate place for him or her. One cannot necessarily expect a locum to make that decision if he or she-----

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas (21 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: No.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I have two brief questions. Reference was made to the 5% of patients who require chronic disease management that GPs cannot offer and who would ideally be managed in a hospital with high-tech equipment where complex work is performed. Do the witnesses know or are data available on the level of chronic disease management taking place inappropriately, as they might say but possibly because...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: In response to Professor Courtney, I recall the meeting in Farmleigh well and have a somewhat different recollection of where the battle lines were drawn. My memory is of having a row with the Government representatives but that is neither here nor there. I have two brief questions, the first of which is on the unique patient identifier project which is under way. Will it help, hinder or...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Application (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 308. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are persons in north County Dublin whose homes have been rendered effectively worthless due to the fact there is pyrite in their estate and their homes have been given grade 1 status, and yet these persons have to pay the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25891/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why persons (details supplied) are being denied school transport; why their special educational needs and the impact that uprooting them from their current school would have on their development and education are not being taken into account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26146/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of Green Certificates issued for houses inspected for pyrite in Fingal by district, excluding homes that have been remediated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25889/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that homeowners with Grade 1 pyrite in their homes are not covered by the exemption scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25890/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are persons in Lusk and other areas of North County Dublin who cannot sell their homes and whose homes are effectively useless but who are excluded from the exemption scheme due to the fact that the level of pyrite is not sufficiently serious; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if there is a cut-off point for inclusion in the pyrite remediation scheme; his views on whether persons who are resident in known pyrite estates should register now even if they have no visible signs of pyrite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25893/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 548. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if extensions to homes, where the extension has pyrite and the home itself does not, are covered by the pyrite remediation scheme; if not, if he will extend the scheme to cover them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25894/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his responsibilities with regard to ensuring that fire safety certificates are issued and up to date; if a fire safety certificate has been issued for a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24781/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will release the funds necessary to complete the work on the road at the back of an estate (details supplied); if he has been in contact with the relevant county council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25160/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Payments (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 709. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was denied access to the insolvency pension fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 710. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the review to establish the action that can be taken to help persons whose former employers ceased trading without entering into a formal winding-up process, who may not access the insolvency payments scheme under the terms of the Protection of Employees Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25011/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 994. To ask the Minister for Health the frequency of elective surgery in the ear, nose and throat hospitals; the waiting lists for ear, nose and throat operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24876/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (16 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 1056. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the legalisation for the organ donation op-out system; the publicity programme which would be put in place to explain the op-out system to the public; the potential amount of funding which would be allocated to such a public information programme [24526/16]