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National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: How many are waiting overall?

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: I would like to point out to the Minister that 75% of the increased funding went on wage increases approved by her Government, through benchmarking and social partnership. I asked the Minister how many patients would be and have been operated on through the NTPF and I have not been told. The waiting list for scoliosis surgery is much longer than the Minister has indicated. She is just...

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: The question was on a cost-benefit analysis.

National Treatment Purchase Fund. (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: Can the Minister make it available to us?

Mental Health Services. (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: Clearly the Thornton Hall site is no longer a runner. Is that correct? Is it the case that the CMH is no longer going out there and the PPP is no longer a prospect? I am trying to interpret what the Minister of State has told me.

Mental Health Services. (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: Forgive me, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but I thought we had a long debate in this House about how we did not consider that Thornton Hall was an appropriate site although the Government was intent on making it the site. Clearly it has now moved position and I welcome that. I equally welcome the fact that we need to fast-track a new central mental hospital. However our interpretation of the...

Mental Health Services. (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: It was so subtle the Minister of State did not even realise it himself.

Mental Health Services. (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: It is a matter of the recession.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: We were discussing whether we would take all these amendments together. I do not like the idea-----

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: On a point of information, I had no issue with amendments Nos. 5 and 7 to 10, inclusive, being taken together but I was not happy to take amendments Nos. 30 to 34, inclusive, together with them.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: That is very fair. In the earlier part of the debate I objected strenuously to one of my amendments being ruled out of order by reason of it being against the spirit of the Bill. The Acting Chairman at the time did not want to engage and I understand why - it was not his ruling but the Ceann Comhairle's. I went to the Ceann Comhairle's office but he was not there. The officials were to...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: I am talking about amendment No. 1.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: I wish to make the point, which I was not allowed to make and which the Leas-Cheann Comhairle might take with him when he leaves. It states at the end of the Long Title "and to provide for related matters". I cannot accept that the amendment is against the spirit of that.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: I accept that, but this is very specific. It relates to our incurring costs at the European court.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: Like Deputy O'Sullivan, I seek further clarity on matters like "age-related tax credits recorded in accounts". I am sure there is nothing major in this and I do not want to make a bigger deal out of it than it deserves. We need reassurance and further explanation as to the technicalities. Most of the amendments are simple enough. However, I have concerns about amendments Nos. 5, 30 and...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 11: In page 7, to delete lines 24 to 27.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: The Minister has misconstrued what I am attempting to do. The amendment does not seek to allow a company to put a product on the market for 24 hours. We want the period reduced to four or five days for the simple reason that under another part of the legislation no other company can offer the product for the 31 day lead-in time availed of by the first company. That is the problem with this...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 12: In page 11, line 10, to delete "10" and substitute "3". Subsection 7AB. states: —(1) Where a registered undertaking proposes, on or after the commencement of section 8 of the Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, to offer in the State a new type of health insurance contract (and regardless of whether the contract is already offered outside the State...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: I accept that the Minister has come a long way to meet us and on that basis withdraw the amendment.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Report and Final Stages (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 15: In page 12, line 46, to delete "person." and substitute the following: "person, where that information is held by the health insurance business in respect of insured persons.". We discussed this issue on Committee Stage. We are seeking to take the onus off the insurance company to obtain PPS numbers. I accept the law has changed and that from now on they will have...