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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank Senator Swanick for raising this matter. Spinraza is indicated for the treatment of 5q spinal muscular atrophy, SMA, a disorder characterised by progressive muscle atrophy and weakness. I am mindful of the fact that access to potentially beneficial drug treatments is an important issue for all people with serious illnesses. I fully appreciate that SMA sufferers and their families...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I think Senator Swanick understands better than most that it is not a decision for politicians. The House made that decision in 2013 when the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act was passed by both Houses. It was agreed that politicians would not decide what drugs would be reimbursed and what prices would be paid to drug companies. I agree with that.I do not think politicians...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank Senator Byrne for raising this issue in the House and giving me an opportunity to address it. I am advised that the University Limerick hospital group recognises the need for the appointment of a clinical nurse specialist post in neurology. The national clinical programme for neurology clearly outlines the resource requirements for the neurology service across the University...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I echo the Senator's welcome for Professor Maura Adshead from the school of politics and public administration at the University of Limerick, who is shadowing the Senator for the day. If I can tell the professor anything about her study for the day, one thing the Senator possesses, and she possesses many attributes, is consistency. I am on record previously as having said that it is one of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank Senator Conway for raising this issue and giving me the opportunity to provide an update to the House. This Government is committed to delivering disability services that are person-centred and putting those who need supports at the centre of our focus. We want to empower people to live independent lives by improving access to the services they require. The 2016 census figures...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank Senator Conway. The point he is making is very welcome and he is a strong ambassador in the area of sight challenges. On the point about early intervention, the key is awareness and people having conversations about it. I particularly welcome, therefore, the opportunities Senator Conway has in this House to raise awareness and to champion these issues. Starting that conversation...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I do not propose to accept amendment No. 1. The legal name of the new body under this Bill is Children's Health Ireland and this broad name reflects the object and functions of the new body, which are broader than just a hospital as the Minister mentioned during the Second Stage debate. It is considered that it may be useful for the new body to also have an operational or brand name. The...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank the Deputy. The new body will have to have an arrangement with multiple universities, academic institutions and research entities due to its national remit in the education of health care professionals in paediatrics and engagement in paediatric research. The formal arrangements between the universities and the new body will require some corporate identity to be decided. While this...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: St. James's Hospital has that facility at present.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I was trying to future proof the viability of an institution that we are establishing here. That can become part of modern day medical practice. The hospital may want to go into services for the cross-jurisdictional area or it may want to expand an existing services and to treat people from another jurisdiction. They may wish to borrow money to set up that service and the hospital may be...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: As I understand it, the Deputy's issue is with current expenditure. Am I correct in that?

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I am trying to explain to her that current expenditure will refer primarily to service provision. If the hospital wishes to extend its range of services, borrowing may become a part of that. If they can secure income, for example, if they were to go into another jurisdiction and offer procedures to patients from the North of Ireland, paid for by that jurisdiction, they could provide a...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: The Deputy can answer that herself. She can look at history. This is to expand new ranges of services, allowing the entity itself to be creative, to modernise and to be progressive, if it so wishes. That is all we are doing. We are not compelling it to borrow money. We are not instructing it; we are only saying if the entity decides and if it clears the checks and balances in the...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I do not propose to accept the amendment. It relates to the appointment process of board members to the board of Children's Health Ireland. As provided for in the Bill, all members will be appointed by the Minister. Section 13 refers to membership of the board on establishment day - the first board. The Bill has been drafted so that the existing Children's Hospital Group board, a...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I appreciate where the Deputy is coming from. She has a long-standing tradition in promoting the rights of workers. I respect that. Every members of the board is tasked in legislation with respecting the rights and the needs of the workers and the patients. To abdicate that role to one member of the board can presuppose that the other members of the board do not have a responsibility in...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I do not propose to accept amendments Nos. 9 and 10. These amendments relate to the appearance of the CEO before the Committee of Public Accounts. The purpose for which the CEO appears before the Committee of Public Accounts is for the committee to examine and report to Dáil Éireann on the annual financial statements and reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General on Children's...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: Does the Deputy's query refer to the transfer date?

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I am informed that, post transfer, employees will retain whatever they have on the day of transfer.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: The Bill refers to an employee's "terms and conditions of service including those relating to tenure of office, or of remuneration" not being less beneficial "than those terms and conditions of service or of remuneration to which he or she was subject immediately before the day of transfer." If the Deputy wants any further clarity, I will be happy to get if for her before Report Stage.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: Would the Deputy mind submitting it to me so that we can be absolutely clear?