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Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: The Special Delivery Unit was established in my Department last July to tackle patient wait times for hospital services. Unacceptably high wait times have been tolerated for too long and have become systemic for both unscheduled and scheduled care. The problems have to be tackled step by step so that improvements can be sustained. There is no room for complacency but progress is being made....

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: I am informed by the HSE that capacity assessments have been carried out pre-transformation and post the transfer of acute medicine from Louth County Hospital to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. The most recent capacity assessments, undertaken by Public Health Specialist Doctors, were in relation to the implementation of the Acute Medicine Programme and as such pertain to medical bed...

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: The Chief Medical Officer of my Department has met and is engaging with the three treating clinics involved in the PIP breast implant issue with a view to ensuring that best practice and patient support is paramount in the service provided to concerned recipients of PIP implants. He has discussed the very reasonable concerns raised by affected clients including access to surgeons for...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: The board appointments I have made following an advertising process are outlined in the following table. Board Member Position Date Appointed VHI Martin Sisk Ordinary Member 15/03/2012 VHI Ambrose Mcloughlin Ordinary Member 15/03/2012 VHI John Melvin Ordinary Member 15/03/2012 VHI Ruth Barrington Ordinary Member 28/03/2012 Mental Health Commission Maeve Doyle Ordinary Member...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: My Department has no record of an application from the Group referred to by the Deputy. If the organisation wishes to make an application for National Lottery Funding they should send in a formal application. Detailed procedures, along with the application form are set out on my Department's website - www.doh.ie.

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: Upon its completion, the Community Nursing Unit (CNU) programme which commenced in 2006 will have delivered approximately 2,246 beds - comprising 879 additional and 1,367 replacement beds. Between 2006 and 2011 approximately €480m Exchequer capital funding has been provided for Services for Older People including community nursing units. In order to comply with regulatory requirements,...

Written Answers — Consultants' Remuneration: Consultants' Remuneration (15 May 2012)

James Reilly: While the Programme for Government provides for a reduction in consultants' remuneration, my immediate priority is to achieve more effective implementation of the existing contract and to reform how services are delivered to patients. I am satisfied that considerable efficiencies can be achieved under the terms of the 2008 contract and the Public Service Agreement, if consultants embrace...

Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: The Health (Amendment) Act, HAA, card is given to men, women and children who contracted hepatitis C from the administration within the State of blood or blood products. Under the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 the entitlement of an individual to an HAA card and to related services is decided by the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive. The latter is bound by the definition...

Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: I too send my best wishes to anybody who is acutely ill at this time. I realise the difficulties attaching to this issue and am sympathetic to the plight of those involved. However, as I said in my reply, in the absence of some other method of defining the cause of illness, it is very difficult, under the legislation, to deal with the cases outlined. The Deputy observed that a very small...

Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for his comments. I will certainly undertake to consult again on this matter. There are specialists particularly proficient in this area who would be of assistance to us. I do not mean this as a defence, but the Attorney General must be consulted in this matter lest it create a precedent which might cause problems. The primary objective must be to support any woman who...

Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: I am pleased to confirm that a decision has been made to make boceprevir, marketed as Victrelis, and telaprevir, marketed as Incivo, which are hepatitis C protease inhibitor drugs, available within the hospital system for the treatment of hepatitis C. The new treatments have been found to be effective in treating adult patients with hepatitis C genotype 1 infection who have compensated liver...

Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: I have discussed this issue with Dr. Barry White, national director of clinical strategy and programmes with the Health Service Executive. He is very much involved in this area as somebody who treats patients with haemophilia, many of whom contracted hepatitis C through contaminated blood products. There are medical protocols around this, which I will not go into, because there is a...

Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: Those who have been assessed and are on the drug will progress quickly, while others must go through the process to ensure they are suitable. With regard to meeting Transfusion Positive-----

Contaminated Blood Products (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: I am sorry. I have met Transfusion Positive and have no problem meeting representatives of Positive Action.

General Practitioner Services (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: I apologise for interrupting. There is a lot of noise coming from the background and I cannot hear the speakers.

Prescription Charges (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: Medical cardholders are required to pay a 50 cent charge for medicines and other prescription items supplied to them by community pharmacists, subject to a cap of €10 per month for each person or family. Charges are not payable in respect of items supplied under the long-term illness scheme. Prescription charges do not apply to children in the care of the HSE or to methadone supplied to...

Prescription Charges (16 May 2012)

James Reilly: I thought my answer was clear on how the situation had changed. However, the old saying comes to mind, "There are none so blind as those who will not see and none so deaf as those who will not listen." The reality is that not alone were the coffers empty when we arrived in government but there was a stack of IOUs in them as well. The money is not there to do what I wanted to, as already...