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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Dec 2012)

James Reilly: In relation to this particular issue, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Dec 2012)

James Reilly: A number of hospitals provide a Therapeutic Apheresis Service and the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) provides an outreach service to a number of hospitals in Dublin and Cork. However, due to its inability to recruit or retain sufficient numbers of staff to meet service demands, the IBTS has informed the HSE that it will cease to provide this service in Dublin from 31 December 2012....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (20 Dec 2012)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 324 and 325 together. Charges for long-stay in-patient services were provided for under the Health (Amendment) Act 2005 and came into effect on 15 July 2005 under the subsequent Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 2005. These Regulations have been amended on a number of occasions since then, most recently by the Health (Charges for In-patient...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Expenditure (20 Dec 2012)

James Reilly: In relation to this particular issue, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards (20 Dec 2012)

James Reilly: In relation to this particular issue, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (20 Dec 2012)

James Reilly: High salt intake is implicated in the development of high blood pressure and in my Department’s National Cardiovascular Health Policy we have set a salt consumption target to reduce salt intake to the recommended 6 grams per day for adults by 2019. To help achieve this we are participating in the EU Salt Reduction Framework which focuses on the reformulation of everyday foods that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation (20 Dec 2012)

James Reilly: St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH) is the designated National Adult Referral Centre for patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). The new Nutley Wing at the hospital, built at a cost of just under €29m and opened this summer, is designed to provide a state of the art clinical building which includes up to date isolation facilities with accommodation for people with cystic fibrosis. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (20 Dec 2012)

James Reilly: There is a formal complaints policy for issues concerning hospitals under the aegis of the Health Services Executive (HSE), as Tallaght Hospital is. Details of this procedure are on the HSE website, at www.hse.ie/eng/services/ysys/Complaint. In addition, advice and instructions for making complaints about a service or an individual may be found at www.healthcomplaints.ie. From the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (20 Dec 2012)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (20 Dec 2012)

James Reilly: The Government has decided that the numbers employed across the public service must be reduced to 282,500 by the end of 2014 in order to meet its fiscal and budgetary targets. The health sector must make a proportionate contribution to the achievement of this reduction. Following the publication of the Health Estimates on 5 December, the HSE's National Service Plan is in preparation. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: I wish the committee and its guests a good evening. I am very pleased to be here to bring the public hearings on the implementation of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in A, B and C v. Ireland to a close. I commend the Oireachtas Members and invited guests for the balanced and dignified approach we have witnessed over the last three days. In particular, I thank the...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me this opportunity. I wish him and the House a happy new year. I take the opportunity to outline the background to the amendments being set out. As a public health measure, for many years Ireland had set a mandatory pricing level below which the price of cigarettes could not be lowered. In the...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: I was hoping Deputy McGrath would give them up.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: I must interrupt the Deputy.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The Deputy should withdraw his remark. He has accused people of lying to the House.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: It is Deputy McGrath who is on his high horse.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: He is making nonsensical and erroneous statements and misleading the House.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: And a cigar.

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: Hear, hear.