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Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is confident that the interim head of the National Cancer Control Programme (details supplied) is receiving full co-operation from the Health Service Executive in view of reports of correspondence released under Freedom of Information between the person and the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6950/09]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of appeals made to the nursing home repayment scheme; the number of appeal decisions issued; the average time to process and appeal; the number of appeal decisions that have resulted in an increased offer to claimants; the number of appeal decisions that have resulted in the initial offer to claimants; the number of appeal...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is a 30% increase in delayed discharges from acute hospitals between 2007 and 2008 which lost the hospital system 216,885 bed days; the further reason the health service is not using beds available in the community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6947/09]

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: An average of 293 patients were on trolleys to date in February 2009. That is an Irish Nurses Organisation figure. The average number in February 2008 was 244. In February 2007 it was 297, and it was 332 in February 2006. In March 2006 the Minister declared the situation in accident and emergency services to be a national emergency. Last year the Minister closed 500 beds and this year...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I want to talk about that for a moment. St. Brigid's ward is perfectly good. People are delighted with it. Families are supportive of it. Patients want to stay in it. Staff are delighted to be working there, yet the Minister wants to close it down. In addition, the HSE is closing a ward in Waterford, which will put more pressure on accident and emergency services there.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: When I asked a question of the HSE it provided responses from 36 hospitals giving a total of 216,885 bed days lost. Will the Minister inform the House of the number of bed days lost from all 51 public hospitals?

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Nonsense.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: That is not true. I was there.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: A total of €500,000 has been spent on it by friends of the hospital. Staff and patients and their families take a great interest in the hospital.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I put it to the Minister that the ward in St. Patrick's has had €500,000 spent on it, that the health and safety report, which I have seen with my own eyes, has been addressed, bar one remaining issue, namely, fire screens in the attic that will cost €50,000, which the friends and families of St. Patrick's are prepared to pay. As to the Minister's contention that the figures are wrong, I...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress of her hospital co-location plan; her views on the viability of the plan in view of the fact that the funding environment has changed in the past six months; when she expects the first bed to come on stream; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6949/09]

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: The Minister did not answer my previous question but, hopefully, she will answer this. The reason I have opposed many of her reforms is she tends to undertake them back to front, as is the case with this scheme. Having removed 500 beds from the system last year and with plans to remove 600 this year, the Minister is still talking about these much vaunted hospitals. She is not shy about...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Answer the question.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I do not want the history to this. When will the beds be available?

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: I know the facts. When will the beds be available?

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: That is not an answer.

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: The Minister should eliminate delayed discharges by opening facilities in the community to allow those patients to be discharged because the guts of 1,000 beds would be available in the morning. She did not answer the question. She stated planning permission has been granted and contacts signed for a number of these projects. When will the first beds be available? If she cannot say, she...

Hospital Accommodation. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Answer the question.

Hospital Services. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, given the findings of the national report on traumatic brain Injury (details supplied), her views on whether the current system is putting patients' lives at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6948/09]

Hospital Services. (19 Feb 2009)

James Reilly: We have only ten neurosurgeons, which is the lowest in Europe. I was in Belfast two days ago and was told that Northern Ireland had 14 with a population one third of ours. That may or may not be accurate. I have a personal knowledge of this in that a friend and colleague of mine with a brain tumour waited four weeks to get into Beaumont Hospital. I had a patient from Wexford who last year...