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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: The Report on the Establishment of Hospital Groups, which I launched on 14 May, is the most fundamental reform of the Irish acute hospital system in decades. The introduction of Hospital Groups will provide for organisational change in the first instance, giving more autonomy and better enabling the reorganisation of services in a well-planned manner. Over time, this will help to improve...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: As Minister for Health, I have made overweight and obesity a public health priority and have established a Special Action Group on Obesity (SAGO) whom I meet with regularly to progress the obesity agenda. The Special Action Group on Obesity comprises representatives from the Departments of Health, Children and Youth Affairs, Education and Skills, the Health Service Executive, the Food Safety...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: The issues raised by the hospitals will be considered in the context of the HSE Service Plan for 2014. I wrote to the HSE on Thursday 31 October to confirm that the Executive has until 15 November to submit its Service Plan. In that letter, I also conveyed to the Executive that my overriding priority is patient safety, with the next priority being to treat patients in as timely a fashion as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: As a result of the economic and financial crisis, the Irish public service is experiencing unprecedented reductions in spending, including the area of health. Current expenditure on healthcare fell by 10% between 2009 and 2013 and will reduce by a further €361m or 3% in 2014. Reductions in the health budget are compounded by underlying cost pressures, including substantial population...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: The issues raised by the hospitals will be considered in the context of the HSE Service Plan for 2014. I wrote to the HSE last Thursday 31 October to confirm that the Executive has until 15 November to submit its Service Plan. In that letter, I also conveyed to the Executive that my overriding priority is patient safety, with the next priority being to treat patients in as timely a fashion...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: On Friday 26 July 2013, 40% of the floor space and 70% of the functional capacity of Letterkenny General Hospital was lost. With the rapid activation of the Hospital's Major Emergency Plan, patients and staff were safely evacuated, arrangements made with other hospitals and the NAS to ensure that appropriate treatment would remain available to patients and a massive clean-up operation was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: 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: Ambulance Service Response Times (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: 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: Health Insurance Prices (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: My Department oversees the maintenance of a competitive and sustainable private health insurance market, under the provisions of the Health Insurance Acts 1994 to 2012, and monitors developments on an ongoing basis, to ensure that the market is regulated appropriately in the transition to a market-based Universal Health Insurance system. There are a number of separate measures currently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: European Health Insurance Card Issues (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: As I indicated in my reply of 5 November, 2013, the HSE is currently working on systems to capture EHIC costs so as to enable it to commence the issuing of claims for reimbursement of costs to the relevant competent states in the near future. As this work is still in progress it is not possible to say at this stage the amounts Ireland is owed by other EU states under the EHIC scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Properties (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: Management of the health care property portfolio is a service matter. Therefore your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2013, has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: The A&E charge which is currently €100, is provided for by the Health (Out-Patient Charges) Regulations 2013. The charge applies to persons attending Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency Departments, Casualty Departments, Minor Injury Units, Urgent Care Centres, Local Injury Units or any other facility providing similar services, subject to exemptions set out in these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: The quality and safety of our health services, including cancer services, has been a focus over the past number of years and this will continue in 2014 in the context of the HSE Service Plan for 2014. I wrote to the HSE on Thursday 31 October to confirm that the Executive has until 15 November to submit its Service Plan. In that letter, I also conveyed to the Executive that my overriding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: The EU Directive on Patients’ Rights in Cross Border Healthcare provides rules for the reimbursement to patients’ of the cost of receiving treatment abroad, where the patient would be entitled to such treatment in their home Member State (Member State of Affiliation) and supplements the rights that patients already have at EU level through the legislation on the coordination of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 183 and 184 together. The gross current budget for the Department of Health (Vote 38) for 2014 is almost €212m, a reduction of €20m on the 2013 allocation of €232m. This funding is for the salaries and expenses of the Office of the Minister for Health and certain other services administered by that Office, including grants to research,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: The Health Insurance Authority, the independent statutory regulator of the private health insurance market in Ireland, provides advice to my Department on an ongoing basis. The data available on the private health insurance market in recent years shows a number of factors which are affecting private health insurance costs. The reduction in the numbers holding private health insurance, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: I am conscious of the need to ensure that there is a fair and balanced private health insurance market in Ireland. The Health Insurance Acts 1994 to 2012 provide the statutory basis for the regulation of the health insurance market in the interest of the common good. At the centre of the common good in a community-rated health insurance market is inter-generational solidarity between all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: The quality and safety of our health services, including cancer services, has been a focus over the past number of years and this will continue in 2014 in the context of the HSE Service Plan for 2014. I wrote to the HSE on Thursday 31 October to confirm that the Executive has until 15 November to submit its Service Plan. In that letter, I also conveyed to the Executive that my overriding...