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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: 448. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide payment proposed by procedure to hospitals as part of proposed plans for activity based funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24154/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Policy (23 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: 449. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for placing public hospitals under the management of private hospital operators or other contractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24155/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (18 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: We have a number of Ministers in the Department of Health. Is the Minister of State taking the question?

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (18 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: It is unfortunate that he has been delegated that duty when there are a number of Ministers of State, as well as the Minister for Health, who could respond on an important matter that has been brought to the attention of the public this week, namely, that non-specialist doctors are being appointed as consultants. In recent years we have seen a massive recruitment crisis in health care,...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (18 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: One of them should be here.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (18 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: They do not hold a licence for the specialist training regime.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (18 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: With due respect, the Minister of State did not answer the question. In terms of a statutory framework, he said that all clinicians have a licence to practice. They do, but if the Minister reads the Medical Practitioners Act, he will see that it splits medical practitioners into two fields. There is the general licensing but then there is the specialist training licence regime. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: 208. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for winter 2017 and 2018; his further plans to incorporate private hospitals to the winter task force in order that all possible facilities are used to facilitate patient care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23701/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (18 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the cost for procedures (details supplied) in each public hospital. [23702/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Prices (18 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: 210. To ask the Minister for Health his views on an organisation's (details supplied) statement that the public hospital charges for private patients is adding in a significant way to health insurance premium costs; the amount per annum which has been collected by the charge since its introduction; the amount collected to date in 2017; if his Department has carried out an assessment of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Levy (18 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: 211. To ask the Minister for Health if the State takes a profit from the Revenue Commissioners’ collection of health insurance levies from health insurance companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23704/17]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: Both previous speakers made fair and reasonable points. The classic problem for people in these vulnerable scenarios is that they do not get the level of services across the multifaceted arrangement that exists. Typically, the problem is that they have no legislative framework to support their needs. An argument can always be made that prescribing certain services excludes the others but...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: It states "shall offer". It does not talk about identifying or triaging a person or anything like that. It requires the garda to offer the services "where relevant".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: We could qualify it with "in consultation with the appropriate medical professionals".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: The Minister of State is concerned that some members of the Garda may not be sufficiently qualified to triage people as to whether they require specialist services, which could create a problem. However, the amendment could be kept as it stands if the words "in consultation with" were added and if it read:... shall offer the victim information relating to the following: (a) services...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: Deputy O'Callaghan has asked me to speak on his amendment. As the other speakers have said, the intention is to tailor the information towards what the victim can understand and how he or she can properly access it. Deputy Daly's point is well made. At the very least, there needs to be mutual agreement as to the format of the communication rather than an assumption that could undermine the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: I think the Minister of State made a fair point about section 21 incorporating the purpose of the amendment so I am happy to withdraw it.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: The point is well made by Deputies Daly and O'Brien. We are all trying to achieve the same thing. It will be interesting to see what the Minister of State has to say and to see how all three amendments can, perhaps, be put together to achieve the best outcome. These amendments are proposed to give people that full support and a right to accompaniment at that acute stage. It is for us all...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: Deputy Daly summed up the matter well. The victim has a right to leave in that scenario, but we must ensure he or she knows of the right to have someone present. That should be incorporated in the text of the Bill. As Deputy O'Brien mentioned, it is a multistage process, so it is important that victims get the chance throughout. The initial stages might be fine, but a victim might need...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 May 2017)

Jack Chambers: We must word some type of procedural amendment so that in this process, the victim knows they can have a right to a replacement when that occurs. Whatever way that is worded in an amendment for Report Stage, it should happen because we will be leaving a procedural vacuum. Of course, the Garda probably would, might and should to do this but if it is not in the law, the force does not have an...