health Archives - Louise O'Reilly TD

Transvaginal Mesh Implants

These implants have left women unable to walk or drive, they need help and supports …

Diagnostic Equipment – Balbriggan

Balbriggan Sinn Fein, with full support of TD Louise O’Reilly, have been campaigning for scanning …

Living Organ Donors

Late 2017 I met a wonderful woman from Lusk while out canvassing – Nicola had …

Health System Crisis

January 2018 saw the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation – INMO publish their paediatric trolley watch which …

Trolley Crisis Policy

On 15th November 2017, Sinn Féin published policies on tackling the trolley crisis and highlighted …

Epilim

On 9th November 2017, I spoke at Leaders’ Questions and asked the Government to undertake …

Are You Sick of Waiting?

In October 2017, there were over 600,000 people waiting for procedures. This is unacceptable and …

National Maternity Hospital

8 Committee agrees to change the constitution

ON 18th October the 8th amendment committee voted by a clear majority not to retain article 40.3.3 in full.Small steps but a big statement – the status quo cannot remain. Lots more work to do.

Above is my contribution up after the vote.

8th Committee – 18th October 2017

On the 8th of October 2017, the 8th amendment committee voted by a clear majority …

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (15 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card reviews that have been carried out to date in 2019; the number that have been refused to date; and the number that have been successful to date [41673/19]
Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: 334. To ask the Minister for Health his plans or the plans of the HSE to restore allowances to a society (details supplied) that were cut during the austerity years; and his further plans to add coeliac disease to the long-term illness scheme [41674/19]
Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for a first outpatient appointment across all specialties by hospital and length of time waiting in tabular form. [41675/19]
Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: 338. To ask the Minister for Health when the recommendations made by the Ombudsman for Children will be implemented in respect off the establishment of child specific wait lists and target outpatient waits for children. [41678/19]
Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the one-to-five-year alternative care pathway for children with comorbidities who require and cannot access timely scoliosis care in an acute hospital setting here in view of the ongoing crisis in recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals. [41676/19]
Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: 337. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow for the outsourcing of scoliosis surgeries via the NTPF in view of the ongoing crisis in recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals and the excessive wait times for scoliosis surgery experienced by children. [41677/19]
Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)
Louise O'Reilly: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal monitoring surgeries that have been cancelled and rescheduled in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals during 2018 and to date in 2019 due to a lack of access to a spinal monitoring team; and his views on the current spinal monitoring arrangement in Children’s […]