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Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: If they were priorities in 2007 and 2008, surely Balbriggan's situation has become more needy rather than less, given its population explosion and unemployment level. Similarly for Swords. Deputy Kelleher mentioned consultation. There certainly was consultation with others. While I might have had more consultation with some Cabinet colleagues than others, all Cabinet colleagues were able...

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: Deputy Sean Fleming, who is not present, stated on "News at One" last Sunday that I did this so that my site in Swords might be used. That is patently untrue and I will invite him to withdraw the statement. In fairness to the show's presenter, she corrected him. Similarly, Deputy Kelleher told the House this morning that I had "conferred financial and commercial gain on individuals" with...

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: I invite Deputy Kelleher to withdraw his comments. If he chooses not to, I suppose I shall have to come to him directly with my complaint.

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: Deputy Higgins may be correct from a technical point of view in that the legal ownership may not have passed but I do not profess to be an expert on NAMA and I am not even sure if that is the way NAMA operates.

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: NAMA takes control of the loan and the site but it does not necessarily incur all the legal costs in transferring ownership only to sell it on again. It controlled this de facto and any moneys arising from it, as far as I understand it. Perhaps the Deputy could ask NAMA about it. Once something is in NAMA, unless there is a major profit made, which is highly improbable in this case from...

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: The Deputy mentioned the needs of the rest of the country, of which I am acutely aware. On the list of 338 places and the other list of 220-----

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: Exactly.

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: The bottom line is there are three methods of developing primary care. If we had all the money we needed we could have tried to build all the facilities ourselves but we do not have it. As a result we have to look for investment from others to do it. What is key is that the people get the service they need as quickly as possible, and if we can do that through public private partnerships,...

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: I have no wish to be in any way disrespectful but there has been much repetition in the questions and all of these were answered in my original statement last week and again here today. For the record, Mr. Murphy has been a member of Fine Gael for 40 years and I am deputy leader of the party: of course I know him.

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: All sides would know that this man and his family have been held in very high regard in Balbriggan for decades and have done a lot of good work. To suggest there is any impropriety is incorrect, wrong, baseless and without foundation. To further suggest in any way that I would get any personal gain from either this decision or the one pertaining to Swords is equally baseless. Becoming...

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: -----I would not turn my back on the people of Swords and Balbriggan whose needs had been identified back in 2008.

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: First, I have to point out to the Deputy that, according to Fionnan Sheahan's report this morning - I do not the "blacks" here but I have no reason to doubt him - the Deputy said this morning in this House "that Minister Reilly has conferred financial ...", and I have asked the Deputy to withdraw that remark. If his idea of a withdrawal is to say "I meant to say could have", fair enough, but...

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: -----there is an old saying that "there are none so blind as those who will not see and none so deaf as those who will not hear".

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: I have laid out the criteria for the Deputy three or four times. The criteria are quite extensive and because all of them act in different ways it is a bit like a multiplier. One and one makes two and two and two makes four but four by four makes 16 and not four and four which makes eight, and so it is with this. It is a logistical logarithmic progression. There is nothing simple about it.

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: I would like to finish by saying that primary care is an essential part of universal health insurance. The programme for Government is something to which I am 100% committed. I was one of its major architects in regard to the health section of it. I adhere to it, I am committed to it, I am determined it will succeed and I am convinced it will succeed. As I said on radio this morning,...

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: -----in the HSE, the new leadership in the VHI and the new leadership in the Department of Health, and the excellent men and women working on our front lines and what they have done already-----

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: -----I am fully 100% convinced we will succeed.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (3 Oct 2012)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: The Deputy may be referring to an independent review of the Addiction Service in Dublin North City and County, which has been initiated by the HSE in that area. The review is being carried out on behalf of the HSE by the Maudsley Trust, an independent not for profit organisation based in South London, that provides substance misuse services and the widest range of NHS mental health services...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (3 Oct 2012)

James Reilly: The HSE and Voluntary hospitals, including Mayo General Hospital, recoup a considerable amount of income from private insurance companies in return for private and semi-private treatment services provided to patients with private health insurance cover. Lengthy delays can occur between the discharge of patients and the receipt of payment from the health insurance companies. I have...