Results 15,101-15,120 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I did not interrupt the Deputy. If he wants to deny the facts for political purposes then so be it but I am actually interested in reality.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I am interested in real outcomes for patients. It is very hard when someone over on the left here wants to live in cloud cuckoo land. I will leave Deputy Healy to his prism, whatever that might be. I do not have the actual cost of agency nurses and doctors. If we do not have it here, I will certainly undertake to come back to the Deputy because that is a very reasonable question to ask....
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: We are doing that through the postgraduate training programme. What we are looking at here and what the Deputies were alluding to are specialist grades of nurses. If a paediatric intensive care unit nurse decides to leave the service, we cannot just replace them with a graduate nurse. We have to get a nurse who is trained in that area.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: That is the difficulty we face, which is why I think they are seeking to recruit in the region of 80 nurses. I want to investigate that further. I probably said that the Department and the HSE are not overlooking the opportunity to help people come into the service now and to move people who might surplus in one area to another to allow younger nurses to come into the system.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I agree 100%. That is certainly what we are trying to do in respect of the non-consultant hospital doctors. I will have Brian McGrath's interim report tomorrow. The report will contain interim recommendations and timelines for their implementation. I will make an announcement in this regard tomorrow because it is important that we keep our doctors and nurses here. They are sought after...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: That practice can be considered more historical but the outcomes are only now being realised. Families should not have to endure that sort of process to get the services they need for their children. The State Claims Agency has taken over many of the cases, which is possibly why we are seeing settlements. Furthermore, the legislation has yet to come through on periodic payments, which...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I just want to make sure we are clear. Deputy Ciara Conway talked about not paying PRSI on unearned income. I think what she means is privately earned income.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: No.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: Sorry, what is the Chairman's question to me?
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I certainly will investigate any issue that relates to exploitation of individuals.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: These JobBridge schemes are important to us.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: As Deputy Kelleher will be well aware, I have been strong in my belief and determination that the cost of service, not the service itself, be reduce. There have not been any wage increases in the recent past of which I am aware. In fact, it is quite the reverse. It is that the Haddington Road agreement savings, which relate to pay, must be applied across all sections. In fact, it is...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: The committee will forgive me if I am not familiar with every service.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: As far as I am aware, COPE Foundation is a section 39 organisation and there are 2,600 such organisations.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I fully subscribe to that principle that those who step up to the bar and meet their targets should be rewarded, not penalised. I have no issue with that.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: Section 39 organisations are not subject to public pay policy but we have written to them stating that at management level they should certainly be observing it in terms of additional top-ups, pay-ups and other matters. However, they are not like section 38 organisations. They do not enjoy the same rights and privileges as public servants and they are not obliged to adhere to the public pay...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: The answer is that the gentleman Deputy Ó Caoláin alludes to is in position with his salary, terms and conditions approved by the Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. That is the reality of the situation. In answer to Deputy Ó Caoláin's question, everyone will be treated the same way. I made it clear, yesterday and at the outset of...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: Yes, I am on record as having said that. We will use all available powers to us to ensure that the pubic pay policy is adhered to. One of the avenues open to us is the service level agreement but I want to make sure this is done in a way that affects those who are in breach and not those whom they are supposed to served. I do not want patients or clients of any of these institutions or...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I can conclude this conversation by answering that question.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I reiterate what I said, namely, that I await the full outcome of the HSE investigation into all these matters, not only the Central Remedial Clinic but all the section 38 agencies. That report will come to me at which point the Department may have to do some research into arrangements that were entered into by it many years ago and to examine the files and make sure that there is accuracy...