Results 2,141-2,160 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Hospital Services. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: Many of the Minister's comments on clinical directorships, etc. are sensible. However, they fail to answer the questions of why we are cutting front-line services to children, why the money cannot be found elsewhere and why we are spending money on a virtual hospital when the existing hospital is being put under such strain. New PR people are to be appointed to the virtual hospital's team....

Hospital Services. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: He is not spending a fortune on PR gurus.

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the high numbers of patients waiting on trolleys in accident and emergency departments here; the date the Health Service Executive six hour target waiting time for all patients attending accident and emergency from arrival to admission or discharge will be recorded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20551/09]

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: It is now three years since the Minister, Deputy Harney, declared the problems in accident and emergency should be treated as a national emergency. She set up an accident and emergency task force and its report was published in June 2007, notwithstanding the fact it was completed in 2006. It set a date of 1 February 2007 to have determined a timeframe from which a maximum wait of six hours...

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: Our party has not opposed the fair deal yet. The Minister should correct the record.

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: I do not accept that we do not have the money. We are spending approximately €5,000 a head in this country on health care while the spend in Holland is €4,000. That country seems to be able to do it but we are not doing it. I can only attribute that to the Minister. To what does the Minister refer in the context of the six-hour target? Does she mean six hours from the time of arrival...

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: What is the cost?

Health Services. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: What about the ones who require admission? They are the ones who are waiting on trolleys.

Health Service Reform. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she made Professor Brendan Drumm and the Health Service Executive aware of the loss of income to hospitals in fees from private patients admitted by new type A public-only consultants, which is estimated to cost in the region of €50 million; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20549/09]

Health Service Reform. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: Then the Minister disagrees with her Government colleagues who raised the matter at the Committee of Public Accounts. I do not accept what she said, in the sense that if a person is admitted under a particular consultant who is on-call on the night, who is a type A consultant, that patient will be a public patient and that income will be lost to the hospital. Time will tell which of us is...

Health Service Reform. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: I find it interesting that the Minister compares us to the North of Ireland, the United Kingdom and other countries. It might be interesting to do a comparative study to find out what they spend on outside consultants in health, and also to compare the number of people they have working within their health service who are engaged in PR and other advisory roles. Will the Minister carry out...

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: This is where we lose touch with reality. Listening to the answers given so far today one would think all is well with our health service when clearly it is a shambles, as evidenced by this attempt to put in place a virtual service in respect of primary care. The reality is there are very few primary care teams delivering new services to patients. The Minister referred to physiotherapy and...

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: I asked the Minister a question earlier which she has not answered. I will ask it again. However, before I do I point out that the new Fine Gael policy, "Fair Care", will provide free GP care, a free medication package and robust community mental health facilities in each of our primary care centres.

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: Seo í an cheist. Chuir mé an cheist chéanna cúpla nóiméad ó shin.

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: How many contracts has the Minister signed with GPs for these new centres in the past 12 months? I do not want to know about the commencement of negotiations, sites identified or virtual primary care teams. I have heard about all of that.

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: We are paying €5,000 a head and in Holland they pay less than €4,000.

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: I am only trying to be helpful to the Minister.

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: The Minister does not want to answer.

Health Service Staff. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: For the record of the House only one contract has been signed at the moment despite all the hype and spin that has come from the far side of the House.

Health Service Inquiries. (21 May 2009)

James Reilly: I support my colleague in this matter. It is normal that they would be grouped.