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Health Care Services: Motion (18 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I move: That Dáil Éireann: is concerned that: — a national emergency has again emerged in Ireland's hospitals with an unprecedented 569 patients on trolleys in January 2011; — the Government will not publish legislation to introduce risk equalisation until 2013, despite having promised to do so within three years when it was struck out by the Supreme Court in 2008; — the public...

Health Care Services: Motion (18 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I understand we will be allowed the time we have lost tomorrow. Is that correct?

Health Care Services: Motion (18 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I think the Whips have sorted it out, but we will not waste further time on the matter now.

Health Care Services: Motion (18 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Like many people, I am perturbed that we must bring this motion before the House. Sadly, it is another manifestation of a failure of Government policy that we find the VHI increasing its premia for customers, by up to as much as 45% for those on Plan B Options and 35% for those on Plan B. This means that the premium for an adult on Plan B will increase by €317 to €1,224 per annum while...

Order of Business (18 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: The Taoiseach should get down to business.

Order of Business (18 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I wish to raise two matters under pending legislation. First, could the Taoiseach indicate the status of the medical indemnity Bill? It has gone through Committee Stage and is to come to Government. As I said prior to Christmas, we are still leaving citizens vulnerable to some unscrupulous doctors who practice without insurance. Second, could I ask about the status of the licensing of...

Order of Business (18 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Is the Taoiseach saying the Minister will introduce her own Bill now and that the Bill that went through Second and Committee Stages will not be concluded?

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the precautions being taken to protect patients from cross infection from swine flu and other hospital infections in view of the number of patients waiting on trolleys in accident and emergency; the additional capacity put in place to deal with the winter increase in hospital admissions; the way she will defend the closure of beds when...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I wish the Minister a happy new year in her first Question Time of the new year - possibly her last if I hear correctly what is going on outside. As I raised this issue with you this morning, a Cheann Comhairle, I will now read into the record of the Dáil the question I put and not the question that was issued by the General Office: To ask the Minister for Health and Children in view of the...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: We will keep moving all right, the Ceann Comhairle need not worry about that. I want to correct the Minister. The figures that I gave in this House are totally at variance with how she can say matters have improved significantly. The figures come from the INMO site. They may be at variance with those of the HSE which has driven the emergency room consultants to draw their own numbers up as...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I will ask a supplementary question. Why is it not possible to open more beds? Why, when the Minister is paying out €1.1 billion annually in overtime and allowances, can she not take some money away from that through proper organisation - overtime should be an exception - and use it to temporarily open beds? Why has the Minister not brought in generic drugs prescribing and drugs...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: -----do not get admitted, are not waiting on admissions and are not counted as persons lying on trolleys. They are people in for a test and they then leave. The sad point on which I will finish is that the bulk of the on average 464 patients each day this year are sitting on plastic chairs with IV drips hanging out of them, in distress, with no privacy and exposed to cross-infection. That...

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I would try to keep it short if I could get answers to questions that were based in reality, not in cloud cuckoo land fantasy.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Nothing I ever said has not been repeated by the Minister's document.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: I will cite the Minister three incidents and I will send them in writing to her and the Ceann Comhairle.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Massaged by the HSE.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Including the patients.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: Including the prescription charge, which I do still.

Accident and Emergency Services (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: The other ways are not working.

Hospital Accommodation (13 Jan 2011)

James Reilly: It is a sad reflection that the health service has not improved. That is the problem, given all the money that has gone in and all the waste that is there. The Minister referred to me accusing her of misleading the Dáil. I will cite one instance that springs to mind immediately. She said the cancer czar, Professor Tom Keane, had met the Irish College of General Practitioners and agreed...