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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (28 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Chairman and members of the select sub-committee for their time and contributions. We are all aware that we face a very challenging year. We have shown, by dint of the improvements in outpatient and inpatient waiting times and the emergency department trolley counts, that we are improving the service. I accept and acknowledge that it is not quick enough for many of our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: In relation to the specific hospital appointment 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: Building Regulations Compliance (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: Managing the delivery of healthcare construction projects is a service matter. Therefore your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply. In relation to the smaller agencies directly funded by my Department, information in relation to the impact of the new Building Control Regulations 2013 on building projects currently underway is not available at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (29 Jan 2014)

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: Health Services Provision (29 Jan 2014)

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 Services (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: The new children's hospital, when built, will bring together Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin, Children's University Hospital Temple Street and the paediatric service at Tallaght Hospital in one state-of-the-art facility on the campus of St James's Hospital. A single national children's hospital, co-located with St James’s and, ultimately, tri-located with a maternity hospital,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: A comprehensive review of maternity and gynaecology services in the greater Dublin area was completed in 2008. The KPMG Independent Review of Maternity and Gynaecology Services in the Greater Dublin Area Report was informed by an international analysis of maternity and gynaecology service configurations and best practice models of care. The report noted that Dublin’s model of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: The CMOs Office of my Department has been developing a report entitled "Healthcare Quality Indicators in the Irish Health System: Examining the Potential of Hospital Discharge Data using the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry System". This work demonstrates the value of using the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry (HIPE) system to derive quality measure that will support a greater knowledge and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Cases (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy's questions relate to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexual Offences (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 to 200. inclusive, together. On-going funding for any service is a matter for the HSE and I understand that the HSE provided the funding amounts set out in the following table to Dignity 4 Patients over the past three years to support the very valuable work that they offer to those who have suffered sexual assault or inappropriate sexual behaviour in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal services which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act, 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the HSE to have the matter investigated and to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Remuneration (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: I welcome this opportunity to bring the Health Identifiers Bill 2013 before the House. It represents another step in the Government's reform programme, which will provide a modern integrated health service that places patient care and safety at its centre. The Bill will allow us to introduce a system of unique identifiers for both individuals and providers of health services right across...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: I never wrote to him about pylons. Sorry, old boy.

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Senators for their contributions. The issue of resources was raised, along with the ongoing exercise to estimate costs. My Department has asked the HSE to establish a project team to continue the work of developing high level estimates. Engagement with the market will be needed to determine the final cost but there is no question of another personnel, payroll and related...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (30 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: The closure of Mount Carmel Hospital has left its patients in an uncertain situation. As the Deputies have said, it will result in job losses. As a doctor and as Minister for Health, my primary concern must be the provision of quality care to patients. The HSE is continuing to work with the hospital to ensure patients' choices are respected, their immediate needs are met and there is a...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (30 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: Notwithstanding what Deputy Kelleher has said about NAMA's activities, that agency showed a profit last year.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (30 Jan 2014)

James Reilly: NAMA has been very co-operative in helping coherence in Government. In other words, when we were considering the National Maternity Hospital moving to St. Vincent's University Hospital, we looked at the buildings that had been built for a private hospital and other purposes - it may not quite have been for a private hospital, but that was one of the possibilities. However, IDA Ireland had...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (30 Jan 2014)

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 Appointments Administration (30 Jan 2014)

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,...