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Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy may wish to note that, in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights and the Medical Council’s Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Medical Practitioners,the Act clarifies that medical practitioners, nurses and midwives with a conscientious objection will not be obliged to carry out or assist in carrying out lawful terminations of pregnancy, unless the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: No specific theatre upgrades are required to facilitate procedures to save women's lives under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion Issues (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: Healthy Ireland proposes a whole-of-government and whole-of-society response to improving the health and well-being of Irish people over the coming generation. The establishment of the Healthy Ireland Council is the most significant action within Healthy Ireland to leverage engagement with whole-of-society. The Council will provide the platform to connect and mobilise communities, families...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cover (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: The inclusion of maternity benefit in all health insurance products is a statutory requirement, as part of a legal obligation on health insurers to provide a specific minimum level of benefit in all health insurance products sold. Minimum benefit is one of the key principles on which the Irish private health insurance regulatory system is based. Minimum Benefit Regulations, made under the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: The information sought by the Deputy is a matter for the HSE and, accordingly, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: This question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: HIQA published its Pre-hospital Emergency Care Key Performance Indicators for Emergency Response Times in 2011, classifying 112/999 emergency calls by clinical status. Clinical Status 1 ECHO calls involve life-threatening emergencies of cardiac or respiratory origin. Clinical Status 1 DELTA calls involve life-threatening emergencies of other than cardiac or respiratory origin. Since they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Investigations (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 654 to 657, inclusive, together. At the outset I would like to express my sympathies to the family of the person concerned. The National Ambulance Service (NAS) has reviewed the call received on 1st January 2014 requesting ambulance assistance in the Rathmullan Park area of Drogheda and has noted that there was a significantly high level of demand on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: The only source of Departmental funding for voluntary and community organisations, other than Local and Regional Drugs Task Forces, is through National Lottery Grants. Details of the National Lottery Grants provided by my Department are available on the Department's website, www.dohc.ie. If the Deputy requires more specific details or seeks further clarification please let me know. Since...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: My Department is currently working on the Licensing of Health Facilities Bill which will provide for a mandatory system of licensing for public and private health service providers. The legislative proposals are being prepared broadly in line with recommendations made in the Report of the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance and are designed to improve patient safety by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: All State agencies under the aegis of, or funded by, the Department of Health are subject to the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies issued by the Department of Finance and the Framework for Corporate and Financial Governance issued by the Department of Health. Line Units within the Department with governance responsibility for individual agencies meet regularly throughout the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Diagnoses (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: Dyscalculia is a specific developmental disorder characterised by difficulty in learning or comprehending and frequently involves difficulties with time, measurement, and . I understand that the Department of Education and Skills classifies dyscalculia as a Specific Learning Disability (SLD). I am also advised that all primary and post-primary schools have been allocated additional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Experimentation (21 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: Directive 2010/63/EU introduced a significant change in the systems for authorisation and conducting of scientific procedures on animals and in the monitoring of standards for animal welfare as compared to the previous legislation. I designated the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) as the Competent Authority for those functions related to the protection of animals used in scientific procedures,...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: When was that statement made?

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: Correct. The Deputy has had three years available but the Deputy's party would not count it. It is unbelievable.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: On my way down here from my office, I thought that we might have a discussion on this issue in a level-headed way but we are back to Deputy Kelleher's favourite phrase "by any stretch of the imagination". I can tell him one thing, his stretching of the imagination has been extraordinary. If anyone is in denial, it is the Deputy and the party he seeks to represent.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: After the period of time his party was in power and had boundless amount of money which quadrupled the spending in health, it still managed the extraordinary feat, after 14 years of unfettered access to money-----

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: -----of ending up with 569 people on trolleys on a Wednesday three years ago - the first Wednesday of 2011 - before we came into power. What is the number of patients on trolleys on the first Wednesday of this year? It is 269.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: Deputy Mattie McGrath can have his chat when it is his turn. I am dealing with the spokesman opposite who has raised this issue.

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (22 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: I am giving facts unlike the Deputy who is into hyperbole - unintelligible hyperbole.