Results 201-220 of 11,592 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 630. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of extending the chronic disease management programme to all heart failure patients; the current number of heart failure patients on the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 631. To ask the Minister for Health the resources and funding that is required to ensure that all hospitals are able to participate fully in the Irish National Audit of Stroke; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10013/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the resources and funding that is required to enable opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation for all people aged 65 years and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10014/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 633. To ask the Minister for Health how many hospitals have access to a clinical psychologist as part of stroke unit care; if he can provide an update on the funding and staffing of clinical psychology posts in stroke unit care; the costing and funding requirements for clinical psychology posts as part of the National Stroke Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10015/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing prescription charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10016/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 635. To ask the Minister for Health what consideration has been given to the development of a programme like the healthy start and best start programme in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10017/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 662. To ask the Minister for Health the standardised monetary level that all post-mastectomy product supports will increase to, as per his announcement in Dáil Éireann on 21 February 2024 during the debate on the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10118/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 663. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding has not been continued for the Understanding and Managing Adult ADHD Programme, UMAAP, delivered by an organisation (details supplied); if there are any other funding streams available to ensure the continuation of the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10119/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 664. To ask the Minister for Health the reason healthcare professionals who have been self-employed cannot have that experience considered as relevant experience for the purposes of qualifying for HSE funded PhD doctorates in clinical psychology; if this will be rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10122/24]

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It is completely interchangeable.

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: An Dara Céim - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: We welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. Sinn Féin will support this legislation and we will await the publication of the wording of the referendum to make a further decision, which is entirely reasonable. I apologise in advance for my alternating and interchangeable pronunciations of the word "patent". We might tack something onto the referendum, so we can make a...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: Tactical insolvencies happen. We can put any name we like on them. They should not be allowed, and we all know that. If sufficient laws had been in place to protect workers like those in Debenhams, TalkTalk and Clerys, workers would not have had to protest and engage in the action they were forced into. They did not do that as a first choice. I know this because I spoke to workers in all...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 2: In page 11, to delete line 4 and substitute the following: “(b) an employees’ recognised trade union and/or an employees’ representative.”.”. This amendment seeks to insert that when a petition for the winding-up of a company is being made to the High Court, employees and their recognised trade unions are notified. The ICTU...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That underlines the need for us to get the minimum wage directive adopted as soon as possible to clear up issues around a multi-union environment. The Minister of State accepted my bona fides on this. The intention is not to do anything other than be helpful. The concern is not addressed in the legislation. I understand the point the Minister of State makes that if there are ten...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 3: In page 13, after line 32, to insert the following: “Amendment of Act of 2014 28.The Act of 2014 is amended by the insertion of the following sections after section 621: “Power of the Court to return assets which have been improperly transferred 621A.(1) The court has the following power where, on the application of the Minister or the...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (1): “(1A) Where a European Works Council stands established pursuant to the Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Act 1996 in relation to the employment in which it is proposed to create collective...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to press the Minister of State on the timetable for that. I acknowledge reference to the very best efforts and all that, but I have a genuine concern that we will be back here in four or five years with this issue still not resolved. I would like more information on the timeline. I appreciate the Minister of State has sought a bilateral meeting in two and a half weeks. What is the...

Protection of Employees (Trade Union Subscriptions) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I sincerely thank Deputy Joan Collins not just for this legislation, but for the work she does in general on workers' rights, her group and her staff because it is very obvious from reading the legislation that not just a lot of work went into writing it but a lot of consultation went into formulating it. This is very practical legislation that is intended to make a real and meaningful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for attending and for their evidence. I apologise, as I will have to leave. I am due to speak in the Dáil, but I will stay for as long as I can. This is a large area and I have quite an interest in it. Hands up, I do not know a great deal about it, but I am trying to read myself into it and learn as much as I can. I will ask a couple of questions and, if I get...