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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 May 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 230 and 231 together. The HSE National Ambulance Service (NAS), through its national control centre reconfiguration project, is continuing to rationalise the number of ambulance control rooms across the country, with a target of one system across 2 sites - Tallaght and Ballyshannon. This project is focused on improving call taking and dispatch functions and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 May 2013)

James Reilly: The management of inpatient and daycase waiting lists for patients awaiting public health care is based on the principle that after urgent and cancer patients are treated, then clinically assessed routine patients should be seen in chronological order (i.e. longest waiter first). Should the patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 May 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 234 and 235 together. The Government has decided that the numbers employed across the public service must be reduced in order to meet its fiscal and budgetary targets. The Health Sector must make its contribution to that reduction. However, the HSE can make staff appointments once it remains within its overall employment ceiling and has the financial...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Children in Care (9 May 2013)

James Reilly: As this is a matter for the Minister for Children, I have asked my colleague to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Crisis Pregnancy Services (9 May 2013)

James Reilly: I have requested that my officials compile the information for each of the years from 2003 - 2013. When it is compiled I will write to you directly with the information.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: In 2012 the National Treatment Purchase Fund initiated a national project to compile, for the first time, an outpatient waiting list database based on patient-level information from individual hospitals. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the NTPF, together with the special delivery unit, SDU, in the HSE, has developed the outpatient waiting list minimum data set that allows for these...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: In many respects the question is disingenuous, given that Fianna Fáil was in power for so long and failed to do anything about it. At least the Government has tried to identify the problem and throw it open to the broad light of day so it can be dealt with in a fair and equitable fashion, in the same way as we dealt with the emergency department trolley waits and, more particularly, in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: I will do something about it and as we speak Mr. Ian Carter, the new chief of the hospital directorate, and Ms Liz Nixon, head of the special delivery unit, are in Limerick examining the situation as it relates to inpatient and outpatient treatment times, the trolley situation and the capacity issue which has arisen. What we have done on the inpatient side is very clear, with 95% of people...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital Status (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: The decision to locate the new children's hospital on the St. James's campus was announced on 6 November 2012. Co-location, and ultimately tri-location with a maternity hospital, on the St. James's campus will support the provision of excellence in clinical care that our children deserve. The new children’s hospital is a key commitment in the programme for Government and the largest...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital Status (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: As I have stated, there is a huge amount of work under way. A decanting process is to take place at St. James's Hospital and several buildings have to be depopulated. The services there have to be moved and those buildings have to be taken down. An extensive project is going on at St. James's under the control of the board which has appointed a project manager with a view to providing us...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: I have consistently raised the issue of costs with health insurers and am determined to address costs in the sector in the interests of consumers. Last year I established the consultative forum on health insurance, which comprises representatives from the country's main health insurance companies, the Health Insurance Authority, HIA, and my Department. This forum was established to generate...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: This problem faced the Deputy and his Government for 14 years, during which time we saw year-on-year rises of up to 25%, so for the Deputy to come across, after two years, as concerned and wanting action on it is a little rich. That is not the way his Government left the country. It was left in poverty and in tatters. His Government destroyed our financial sovereignty. It accounts for much...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: They are putative, not real. Where are they? The Deputy wants to confuse facts with supposition.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: I have to respond to that.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: The HIA recommendations have not been refused. The Deputy is trying, as Fianna Fáil always does, to muddy the waters-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Insurance Cost (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: -----and confuse fact with supposition and fiction. This will happen if no action is taken to address runaway costs of health insurance.

Other Questions: Cancer Screening Programme (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: The BreastCheck programme provides free mammograms to all women aged 50 to 64. The programme for Government includes the extension of BreastCheck to women in the 65 to 69 age group, in keeping with EU guidelines on effective screening for breast cancer. The main priority for the HSE's national cancer screening service, NCSS, at present is to maximise national uptake in the 50 to 64 age...

Other Questions: Cancer Screening Programme (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: I will give credit where it is due. This programme, which is a good initiative, was rolled out under a previous Government. As per our programme for Government, we want to extend it. The recruitment of radiographers is ongoing and 15 whole-time equivalent posts were advertised. Of these, 8.3 positions have been filled and a further five candidates have completed successful interviews and...

Other Questions: Cancer Screening Programme (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: We are very keen to see the mammography service restored to Sligo. As I have already indicated to Deputy Kelleher, however, we are experiencing great difficulty in attracting mammographers. We have been obliged, therefore, to consider recruiting from abroad and, in final frustration, we are going to begin retraining people here. We have already appointed two people to training posts in...

Other Questions: Cancer Screening Programme (14 May 2013)

James Reilly: That is my intention. This matter is under the remit of the Galway group, which is constantly under pressure. I have made it clear to Mr. Bill Maher, who is keen to have this mammography service restored, that these people should be available to the Sligo service. I do not want women travelling from Sligo to Galway unnecessarily. I have made it clear many times that I want to end the days...