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Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (14 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: ...directly or solely to HCAIs as most cases involve significant co-morbidity factors. In November 2006, a coroner's court recorded what is believed to be the State's first verdict of death by MRSA infection. The coroner ordered that deaths due to hospital infections must be reported to the coroner. The proposed Coroners Bill 2007 now defines MRSA as a reportable death. A National...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2008) See 1 other result from this debate

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was revealed in recent days that 30 of the 150 children with cystic fibrosis being treated at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, are colonised with MRSA.

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (12 Feb 2008) See 1 other result from this answer

Olivia Mitchell: ...246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is policy to ensure that patients with mental and physical disabilities in residential homes are segregated from residents suffering from MRSA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5057/08]

Order of Business (7 Feb 2008) See 2 other results from this debate

Jan O'Sullivan: ...end of November 2007 and is now promised for February 2008. I am raising this matter because today's Irish Medical Times is reporting that some of the women who were misdiagnosed have contracted MRSA. They were harmed initially by being misdiagnosed but they have now been doubly harmed by the health service through contracting MRSA. We urgently need the Ann O'Doherty report to be...

Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (6 Feb 2008)

Kathleen Lynch: ...are appalled at what we have done with that boom in terms of services. The health service is just one of those areas. I want to talk about hospital acquired infections. Most people are aware of MRSA, but there are several others. I will talk of my experience in this regard, as no stranger to hospitals. During my lifetime I have been in hospital every second year, on average. I...

Seanad: Health Services (6 Feb 2008)

Déirdre de Búrca: ...upgrading. It was stated that because of the lack of these segregation and isolation facilities for cystic fibrosis patients the risk of cross-infection was high with virulent organisms such as MRSA and hepatitis C. The report also highlighted that as a small discipline, cystic fibrosis was particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of funding and was looking for more secure and stable...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (5 Feb 2008)

Mary Harney: I would like to assure the Deputy that tackling all Health Care Associated Infections (HCAIs), including MRSA and C Difficile, continues to be a priority for the government and for the Health Service Executive (HSE). MRSA is not a notifiable disease. However, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre of the HSE collects data on MRSA. In 2007, 43 Irish laboratories serving 64 acute...

Health Services: Motion (5 Feb 2008) See 2 other results from this debate

James Reilly: ...under control. The lack of isolation facilities, both for outpatients and inpatients, poses a most serious risk of cross-infection, leaving cystic fibrosis patients vulnerable to contracting MRSA and other potentially life-threatening infections. The Minister of State knows this well because he is a doctor. Patients are getting sicker in hospital and are spending longer in recovery...

Health Services. (31 Jan 2008)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...themselves to the danger of infection by attending accident and emergency departments and wards comprising people with a variety of illnesses, including hospital-transmitted illnesses such as MRSA and C. difficile. We must respond to these young people and I want to ensure a commitment to them on the record of the House. We who have been elected by the people must ensure that their needs...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (31 Jan 2008) See 1 other result from this answer

Emmet Stagg: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if extra funding has been allocated to the National MRSA Reference Laboratory in response to concerns expressed in 2007 as to its capacity to carry out its functions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2716/08]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (31 Jan 2008) See 3 other results from this answer

Pat Rabbitte: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the information available to her on the incidence of MRSA, C Difficile and other infections in hospitals here; the measures being taken to reduce the spread of these infections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2712/08]

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (20 Dec 2007)

Frances Fitzgerald: ...for health care. It manifests itself in different areas, including waiting lists for acute care, and a bed occupancy rate of 100% when the optimal is 85%. This has major implications for treating MRSA in terms of isolation beds and units for people with that illness, and the treatment of this disease is one of the greatest scandals of our time. Having recently met the lobby group that...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2007) See 1 other result from this debate

James Reilly: ...hospitals. The Minister stated that those who need isolation rooms should have them but the reality is there are too few of them, particularly at Beaumont Hospital, which cannot deal with all the MRSA patients who should be in such rooms. That hospital certainly does not have the ability to isolate patients with cystic fibrosis, who have a ten-year shorter life expectancy in this country...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (11 Dec 2007) See 1 other result from this answer

James Reilly: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress achieved in meeting her target to reduce health care associated infections by 20%, to reduce MRSA infections by 30% and to reduce antibiotic consumption by 20%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33843/07]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (11 Dec 2007)

Mary Harney: I share the public concern in relation to Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs). Tackling HCAIs, including MRSA, is a priority for the Government and for the Health Service Executive (HSE). The State Claims Agency is dealing with a number of claims against the State which involve an element relating to MRSA. However, the matter of liability in such cases has yet to be established. I...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...allocation to phase in the 3,000 extra hospital beds required. There is no special allocation to provide additional single rooms and isolation units in our hospitals to combat the spread of MRSA and other virulent hospital-based infection. The Minister for Finance left tax breaks for developers of private for-profit hospitals in place and the shameful co-location scheme will go ahead,...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (5 Dec 2007)

Mary Harney: ...is an integral part of every day health service life and is something that can be beneficial to the patients, their families and friends. However, the growing threat of hospital infections, from MRSA or vomiting bugs, has necessitated the drawing up of more restrictive visiting guidelines. It is difficult to find evidence of the clinical effectiveness of any single strategy such as...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: ...and seriously ill patients every day involves long delays in overcrowded accident and emergency departments where they lie in fear of contracting methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, MRSA. This is quite a record for the Minister to be proud of — she should hang her head in shame. This Minister cannot provide dignified care for our elderly loved ones in Irish hospitals after ten...

Voluntary Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Nov 2007)

Dan Neville: ...the discussion of the Labour Party Private Members' motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health and Children. There is a crisis in services for the diagnosis of breast cancer; there is MRSA, waiting lists and many more issues which have caused the public to lose faith in the health service. VHI celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a share of 75% of the health insurance...

Written Answers — Hygiene Standards: Hygiene Standards (21 Nov 2007) See 4 other results from this answer

Alan Shatter: ...governance of public hospitals here by both hospital management and the Health Service Executive and that lack of adequate hygiene indefensibly exposes patients to unacceptable risks of contracting MRSA, C. Difficile and other hospital acquired diseases; and the reason for her failure to ensure that appropriate structures are in place to provide proper hygiene throughout hospitals and to...