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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists newly recruited to date in 2017; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; and the net increase in occupational therapist numbers resulting from this recruitment. [45502/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists newly recruited to date in 2017; the sectors of the health service under which they have been recruited, that is, primary care, acute and disability services; and the net increase in physiotherapist numbers resulting from this recruitment. [45503/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists employed in each CHO area; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2015 and 2016 in tabular form. [45504/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists employed in each CHO area; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2015 and 2016 in tabular form. [45505/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 183. To ask the Minister for Health #the number of physiotherapists employed in each CHO area; and the equivalent figures for the same date in 2015 and 2016 in tabular form. [45506/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 191. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering charging a nominal fee of €5 per visit for free general practitioner care for those under 12 years of age. [45535/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the work of the expert reference group established to draft guidelines to facilitate the use of cannabis treatments under an access programme; when the guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45537/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 20 October 2017 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available, in tabular form [45542/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges in all public and voluntary acute hospitals at the end of September 2017 or the latest date available; and the number of which have been delayed by time band (details supplied), in tabular form. [45543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if persons aged 75 years of age or over have experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours to date in 2017; and if so, the hospital in which the wait occurred. [45544/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional beds that will be provided during winter 2017 to help ease hospital overcrowding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45545/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the contingency plans in place for health services to cope with a greater 'flu outbreak than is normally experienced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45546/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I thank Professor O'Keane for her presentation. We meet again; we soldiered during the debate in advance of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill in 2013. One could argue that life is never black and white; it is grey and messy. Human relationships are complex and all of that. The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act exists because of a very blunt instrument in the middle of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I will just continue on from that and we will leave it there because time is of the essence. It is clear from what Professor O'Keane said that the process under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act is very cumbersome and is certainly a deterrent to people, particularly as it involves two psychiatrists and an obstetrician, I think-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: -----after referral by another clinician. I refer also to the fact that a woman has to go abroad for a termination. There is obviously a cohort of women in this country who have not the capability or financial means to organise travel. Among both the indigenous population and the migrant community, in particular, there is a strong emphasis on religious culture, and they have views on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: "Mesmerised" is not an offensive word. The definition is, "capture the complete attention of someone, transfix".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital (25 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Mr. O'Malley referred to one issue. Traditionally when a rape case is brought, there has to be a perpetrator. Allegations cannot just be made and then a case taken. There has to be a perpetrator for the conviction purposes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital (25 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Across the continuum to which he referred from a criminal conviction to a statement from a girl or a woman that she was raped, I assume Mr. O'Malley is not implying that a perpetrator would have to be named even with the lesser burden of proof or is he saying the perpetrator is named in other countries?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital (25 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: In most countries that have rape as a ground for abortion, is there a lesser burden of proof than a criminal requirement and is there not always a requirement to name a perpetrator?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital (25 Oct 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Where a clinician meets the patient in the context of a rape, are there obligations on medical practitioners to interact with the criminal justice system if the patient has been raped? Is there absolute privilege in this context?