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- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to my Department to the end of 2010 is set out as follows. Details in respect of 2011 are not readily available at this time. They will be compiled and forwarded to the Deputy. Year Amount ⬠2006 1,375,000 2007 48,400 2008 62,315 2009 115,003 2010 155,280 Responsibility for many advertising and promotional campaigns transferred...
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: There is no doubt that there are challenges facing the mental health, disability and childcare services as a result of reduced resources by way of an additional efficiency target of â¬50m in 2012. This target is in addition to savings in employment and procurement costs which are required of the health services as a whole next year. The precise levels of savings required will vary...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The gross current budget for the Health Sector for 2012 is â¬13,644m. An additional â¬79m is to be raised through a number of measures to increase the level of income from private patients treated in public hospitals and also to improve the collection rate of these charges. When account is taken of the Government's target savings, the need to meet unavoidable cost pressures and priority...
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The amount of capital reserves required by the VHI would fall to be determined by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) in the context of its role under the European Communities (Non-Life Insurance) Framework Regulations, 1994. In assessing an application for authorisation by an insurer, the CBI takes account of the three year business plan submitted, using optimistic, realistic and pessimistic...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: I am determined to address the issues which cause unacceptable delays in patients receiving treatment in our hospitals. In this regard I have established the Special Delivery Unit (SDU), which will work to unblock access to acute services by dramatically improving the flow of patients through the system, and by streamlining waiting lists, including referrals from GPs. The SDU is working...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: There are no proposals at present to reduce the remuneration of hospital consultants. My immediate priority is to achieve more effective implementation of the existing contract so that patients get faster access to services and achieve better outcomes within the budgets available to hospitals. I believe there is plenty of scope under the existing contract and the Croke Park agreement to...
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The current statutory public in-patient charge is â¬75 per day subject to a maximum of â¬750 in any period of 12 consecutive months. This charge is payable by all public patients subject to exemptions specified in regulation, which include medical card holders, amongst others. There was no increase in the public in-patient charges in 2011 and there are no plans to increase these charges...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: Immediately following my appointment as Minister for Health, I set about establishing the Special Delivery Unit, the purpose of which is to unblock access to acute services by improving the flow of patients through the system. As a priority the SDU is addressing the issue of unacceptably long trolley waits. The SDU is putting in place an infrastructure based on information collection and...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 286 and 287 together. Firstly I would like to clarify that there is currently no voluntary redundancy or voluntary early retirement scheme available in the public health sector. The 'grace period' during which the calculation of public service pensions is unaffected by the pay reductions applied under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest...
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The current statutory public in-patient charge is â¬75 per day subject to a maximum of â¬750 in any period of 12 consecutive months. This charge is payable by all public patients subject to exemptions specified in regulation, which include medical card holders, amongst others. There are no plans to increase these charges for 2012. The private/semi private accommodation charges for private...
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: I am advised by the Health Service Executive that the total anticipated income from statutory and voluntary hospitals in respect of inpatient and accident and emergency charges in 2011 is estimated at â¬37,147,270. The public hospital statutory in-patient charge is currently â¬75 per day up to a maximum of â¬750 in any twelve consecutive months during which an individual is maintained as...
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The Secretary General of my Department met with representatives of the three insurers on the day of the Government announcement relating to changes to bed charges for public hospitals. Following on from this I met yesterday with the three commercial insurers, Aviva Health, Quinn Healthcare and Vhi Healthcare. They have agreed to set up a Health Insurance Consultative Forum to tackle issues...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The Gross Current Vote for my Department in 2011 is â¬331.610m, of which â¬241.552m was spent to the end of November, leaving â¬90m unspent at that date. The current projection is that there will be a surplus of at least â¬40m on the Vote in the current year which will be surrendered to the Exchequer. This surplus can be attributed to a number of factors: Hepatitis C Compensation...
- Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The â¬143m comprises â¬18m being the full year effect of the increase provided for in 2011 following the Value for Money review on private accommodation in public hospitals, â¬50m for the accelerated income collection from private health insurers; and â¬75m being the part year effect of the proposal to introduce legislation allowing public hospitals to raise charges in respect of all...
- Written Answers — Comprehensive Expenditure Review: Comprehensive Expenditure Review (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The Comprehensive Expenditure Review prepared by my Department, and submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in September, was published on both Departments' websites on 7 December subject to the appropriate redactions.
- Written Answers — Comprehensive Expenditure Review: Comprehensive Expenditure Review (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: As the Deputy will be aware, a comprehensive review of expenditure was undertaken within each Department which has formed the basis for the 2012 Estimates. The Department of Health draft Comprehensive Expenditure Review was approved by the Minister and submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 22 July 2011. The Report analysed the 11 HSE care programme areas in terms...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: I am determined to address the issues which cause unacceptable delays in patients receiving treatment in our hospitals. In this regard I have established the Special Delivery Unit (SDU), which will work to unblock access to acute services by dramatically improving the flow of patients through the system, and by streamlining waiting lists, including referrals from GPs. The SDU is working...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The HSE must ensure that the health sector is staffed with personnel with the appropriate mix of skills and experience. This is part of the human resource planning function of any organisation. While it is not possible to say how many staff will actually retire in any given year, it will be affected by a number of factors. In particular, the grace period during which the calculation of...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: Ireland does not have a public cord blood bank and collection of cord blood for private use in low risk families is not provided publicly in Ireland. However, when clinically indicated by a consultant overseeing care, collection of cord blood for donation to an identified family member in high risk families is facilitated by HSE hospitals in collaboration with the Irish Blood Transfusion...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 Dec 2011)
James Reilly: The Gross Current Vote for my Department in 2011 is â¬331.610m, of which â¬241.552m was spent to the end of November, leaving â¬90m unspent at that date. The current projection is that there will be a surplus of at least â¬40m on the Vote in the current year which will be surrendered to the Exchequer, and will contribute towards the cost of the Supplementary Estimate approved for the...