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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Furthermore tight control is needed of expenditure on agency and overtime in nursing services. For these reasons there are no plans to increase the numbers of permanent nursing staff employed in the health service.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I note the information that has been forwarded by the Deputy; however, as he will be aware, the Government has approved the implementation of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the A, B and C v Ireland case by way of legislation with regulations, within the parameters of Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court in the Xcase. It has also been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Recruitment (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 856 and 857 together. My Department currently employs three legal advisors. One is employed on a full time basis at Principal Officer equivalent and 1.4 WTEs are employed at Assistant Principal equivalent. My Department is aware of the need to minimise legal costs and, in general, avails of legal services and advice from the Office of the Attorney General...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Staff (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: While normal retirement and redeployment will achieve part of the required reduction, a targeted programme of voluntary redundancy in certain parts of the health service will also be introduced as a means of achieving the full reductions required. Work is underway to determine the most appropriate way of targeting this scheme in order to ensure that any impact on frontline service delivery...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: In general, people with outpatient and hospital appointments are expected to make their own travel arrangements, using private or scheduled public transport. The exceptions are for dialysis, cancer (radiotherapy and chemotherapy) and post-operative transplant patients, where transport may be provided. In these cases, the patient's appointment or treatment should be directly related to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Workers Register (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Under the provisions of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 there is a two-year transitional period from the date on which the register of the members of that profession is established during which existing practitioners may apply for registration. The transitional period in the case of social workers ends on 31 May 2013. The Health and Social care Professionals Council is an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Service Contracts (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Delivery of healthcare infrastructure is a service issue. Therefore your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: The treatment or transfer of patients is a clinical matter and therefore is a matter for the consultant/s and medical team involved in providing that care. In relation to the specific query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: As you are aware there will always be more construction projects than can be funded by the Exchequer. The primary care infrastructure model offers a good fit for private sector finance and the HSE will continue to work with interested parties to deliver primary care centres. As the delivery of healthcare infrastructure is a service matter your query has been referred to the Executive for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Gort and Tuam, Co Galway are two of the 35 potential locations for primary care centres for development by way of PPP as announced in the July 2012 Infrastructure Stimulus Package. Of the 35, approximately 20 will be offered to the market subject to a) agreement between the local GPs and the HSE on active local GP involvement in the centres and b) site suitability and availability. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pension Numbers (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: The detailed information sought by the Deputy in relation to health service staff is a matter for the HSE and, accordingly, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him. The information in relation to the Non-Commercial State Agencies under the aegis of my Department is currently being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Incidence (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: The National Cancer Registry is the statutory body with responsibility for, inter alia, the collection and analysis of information relating to the incidence of cancer and related tumours in Ireland. My Department has asked the Registry to respond directly to the Deputy in relation to the incidence of cancer in the area specified.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Report (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: As the Deputy is aware, my Department has commissioned an independent research report in relation to the practice of symphysiotomy in Ireland. The Research included a consultation process involving patient groups, health professionals and in particular the women who have experienced symphysiotomy. The researcher is currently finalising the report based on the consultation and it is also...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: As the Deputy was advised in his previous Parliamentary Question reply, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) publishes quarterly data in arrears on bloodstream infections notified to it from all hospital laboratories, both public and private. Provisional statistics for 2012 to end-September 2012 were published on the HPSC's website on 19/12/2012 and are still subject to revision;...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I understand no amendments have been proposed to the Bill. Therefore, I take the opportunity to thank all of the Deputies who have supported and contributed to the debate on the Bill. While there is an obligation placed on Ireland to change its laws on the minimum pricing of tobacco, I am pleased Deputies have supported my initiatives as set out in the Bill in tackling some of the sales...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I thank the Chairman and members for their contributions. I appreciate the support of Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin who I know, like me, is not anti-smoker but anti-smoking and anti-tobacco. We will do everything we can to help smokers to quit the habit. As I said elsewhere, the industry seeks to replace the small number who give up smoking and the very large number who,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Expenditure (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: In general, people with outpatient and hospital appointments are expected to make their own travel arrangements, using private or scheduled public transport. The exceptions are for dialysis, cancer (radiotherapy and chemotherapy) and post-operative transplant patients, where transport may be provided. In these cases, the patient's appointment or treatment should be directly related to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Until recently, there was no standardised collection of outpatient waiting list data, which meant that the scale of the issue was unmeasured and consequently no special action was taken to address it. This Government is changing that. The Special Delivery Unit is now dealing with the issue of outpatient waiting lists on my instruction, with the assistance of the NTPF. Work has commenced on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Funding (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Demographic pressures will unavoidably affect the provision of health services in 2013. The population of Ireland has grown very rapidly in recent years, and the 2011 Census confirms a continuation of this trend, though at a more moderate pace. Furthermore, the distribution of the population across age groups is also changing with numbers in the older age groups growing in absolute terms but...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Eleven sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are currently legally notifiable in Ireland: ano-genital warts, chancroid, Chlamydia trachomatis, genital herpes simplex, gonorrhoea, granuloma inguinale, infectious hepatitis B, lymphogranuloma venereum, non-specific urethritis, syphilis and trichomoniasis. Aggregate data on the number of notified STIs from Departments of Public Health in each...