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Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Disgraceful.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Go back in time to when the Labour Party-----

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Is Deputy Kelly serious?

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (1 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a claim that some general practitioners are charging medical card holders for sick certificates; if this is permissible and on what grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13863/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 2. To ask the Minister for Health if he accepts the capacity review of the National Ambulance Service and its recommendations; if he will create a specific stand-alone yearly budget to implement it; when he will implement the recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14020/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the three newly appointed Members opposite and congratulate them and wish them well in their new roles. My question was specific and referred to the creation of a stand-alone budget. In light of what was done to the mental health services budget, no one will dispute that a stand-alone budget is necessary to ensure that these measures are implemented. The Minister and I may not...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: To be honest with the Minister, I was looking for something a little more specific than the answer he was prepared to give me. I understand a significant increase in the number of personnel will be involved and that the trade unions representing the workers in Dublin Fire Brigade and the National Ambulance Service have sought a meeting with the Minister. Will he accede to the request for a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: It will cost money. We need to know.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Recruitment (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 4. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recruitment processes for all grades, groups and categories in the Health Service Executive; if there have been budgetary impediments to the recruitment processes in specific areas; if there has been a problem with recruitment because of budgets; where has this occurred, by area, hospital and location; how he will meet staffing needs; and if he...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Recruitment (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Let me be equally clear - activity levels in the health service are increasing but staffing levels are not matching them. The Minister can deny that there is a pause in recruitment, but I have in writing from the office of the assistant national director for oral health a statement that there is a pause in temporary recruitment pending the outcome of cost containment discussions. No one...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Recruitment (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Given that activity is increasing, even returning to the staff levels that applied before they were decimated will not cut it. The Minister referred to the Garda Commissioner. As he will be aware, we have had carnage and a great deal of blood spilled in the north inner city. Is this what we are waiting for before the budget will be increased? The Garda Commissioner sought an increase in...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Some €18 million was spent last year on the winter initiative. Can the Minister advise if the same amount is being set aside for this year, or will it be more? We are 65 beds short of the target of 301 which was promised. Where did those 65 beds go? The Minister said it is the intention to undertake a bed capacity review and that is very welcome. When will that start and finish...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: We need to know who will conduct the review. I welcome the Minister's statement that it will encompass all beds because there is a serious need for that to be examined. The Minister may already be aware that according to the OECD, the number of beds we have per 1,000 people is below the EU average. We already have a deficit. I am disappointed that the figure for the winter initiative,...

Other Questions: Mental Health Policy (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: It is in the programme for Government that a wellness class will be added to the junior certificate cycle. That is to be welcomed. I share the Minister of State's views on the need to address issues of mental health and, more importantly, mental health well-being at the earliest possible stage. Has this been agreed with the people who will be delivering it, namely, teachers at the front...

Other Questions: Mental Health Policy (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: It does not sound like much of a priority if the Minister of State cannot even give us a date. It should be a priority and one that is accompanied by identifiable targets, dates, times, etc. We welcome the taskforce on youth mental health. Will the Minister of State give us some insight into the individuals who will be involved? The plan is that it will be established within 100 days....

Other Questions: Health Services Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: The National Treatment Purchase Fund is simply code for privatising a problem. We do not support that. We support investment in our public health service. There is €50 million of continued investment - that is it how it is termed - per year and yet the ministerial brief given to the Minister advises that there was only €28 million of funding spent in 2015. There is clearly a...

Other Questions: Health Services Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: Not privatisation.

Other Questions: Health Services Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: There needs to be investment in front-line services.

Other Questions: Health Services Funding (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: That is the question I was asking.

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Report (2 Jun 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: The vision of A Vision for Change was never realised, although it was Government policy for five years under Fianna Fáil and further five years under Fine Gael. If the Minister of State talks to any person working in our mental health services, they will tell her the goals that were set out within A Vision for Change were not only not reached, they were not even nearly reached. All...