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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: I understand that this person is seeking admission to a private mental health facility. This would, therefore, seem to be a matter for the person in question or their health professional to take this up directly with the facility concerned. However, I will also ask to HSE to correspond with you directly in relation to the reference in the details to any possible involvement by local HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data (25 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (25 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (25 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Expenditure (25 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 357 and 358 together. As these are service matters I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (25 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (25 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Seanad: Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: I will be as brief as possible. To return to the question of open disclosure, it is clear that the lack of disclosure and the way disclosure eventually took place had a major impact on the affected women and families. Their experience is reflected eloquently in their own words, which are threaded through Dr. Scally's report. The Scally report underlines that disclosure is not just about...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank the Deputy for raising the important issue of the challenges arising in University Hospital Limerick and, on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Harris, I welcome the opportunity to address the House on this issue. The emergency department in University Hospital Limerick, UHL, is one of the busiest in the country, with approximately 67,000 attendances annually. Demand for emergency...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: I will relay the Deputy's concerns to the Minister, Deputy Harris. To address the issue of the Minister not being present, it is a very fine balance. I appreciate the Deputy's frustration and I am not saying this to be argumentative but to illustrate the challenges the Minister faces daily in getting the balance right between trying to deal with the issues and engaging with the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Staff Recruitment (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: That is something he could do with the management as a public representative, as the Minister does not manage the UHL or, indeed, any of the acute hospitals throughout the length and breadth of the country. That is done by the HSE and the management team in place. I will relay the Deputy's concerns to the Minister and make him aware of the issue.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank the Deputies for the opportunity to address the House on this issue. The Minster for Health and I are sorry that any child and his or her family experience a long waiting time for treatment for scoliosis. Improving access for these patients is a key priority for this Government and specific plans have been developed and funded in 2017 and 2018. However, I fully accept there is room...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: There is nothing simple about this. Deputy O'Reilly keeps using the word "simple" in that she wants simple answers to simple questions but this is a very complex, difficult area of surgery. The Deputy can nod her head all she likes but we sometimes have to listen. Nobody in this room has a monopoly on understanding or compassion for what is involved for these patients. I am a practising...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: -----neither the Minister, Deputy Harris, nor I have ever carried out one of these procedures and never could do so because it is a clinical matter and there are clinical decisions and considerations. The Deputy can shout me down all she likes but it would be in her interest and in everyone's interest to listen to me as well. She can nod and if she wishes to play politics with this she can...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: We can throw money at it and we are doing that but there are other challenges in the system. As a matter of absolute fact, and I am not manipulating waiting lists, this year there will be 447 procedures carried out by the children's hospital group. Two years ago 224 procedures were carried out by them so that is a 100% improvement rate in two years in the amount of procedures carried out...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Committee on Public Petitions: Nursing Home Casebook (Resumed): Minister of State at the Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank the committee for its invitation to appear today. I will be very brief because I appreciate that questions and answers are probably more constructive and I have already submitted a prepared script for the members' attention. As members are aware, public funding is provided to nursing homes under the nursing homes support scheme, NHSS, which is a system of financial support...

Committee on Public Petitions: Nursing Home Casebook (Resumed): Minister of State at the Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: Shall I go ahead and-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Nursing Home Casebook (Resumed): Minister of State at the Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank Deputy Cassells for his questions. The issue with the additional charges is that there is a disparity among different homes. They are private entities. I do not think it is within my gift to instruct them on a prescriptive method, that they should charge no more than this or no less than that or whatever else. As for the best way to deal with additional charges, the biggest...

Committee on Public Petitions: Nursing Home Casebook (Resumed): Minister of State at the Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Jim Daly: The Senator has not asked a question. I appreciate that the capacity issue is a challenge for us. As part of the Project 2040 plan, it is planned that 2,600 additional beds will be put into the system. As a policymaker, I am focusing on alternative models of care so that we that we do not end up relying on nursing homes as the only alternative to the home. I have taken many strides to...