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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Mar 2014)

James Reilly: In relation to the detailed information requested by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to him directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Mar 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 218 to 221, inclusive, together. In relation to the detailed information requested by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to him directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (27 Mar 2014)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (27 Mar 2014)

James Reilly: Under the Haddington Road Agreement key features include an extended working day, substantially reducing spending on overtime and making the most cost-effective use of the additional working-hours provided for in the Agreement. There must be a major focus of achieving savings and efficiencies in front-line services, including those provided for by carers, in ways which do not impact...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I assure the House that the national ambulance service will continue to modernise and reconfigure its services to ensure emergency pre-hospital care is delivered in an appropriate and timely manner. In that regard, additional funding of €3.6 million and 43 staff have been provided under the national service plan for 2014. Including Dublin Fire Brigade emergency ambulances, our total...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I will address the specific issues. Since 2011 the HSE has been implementing response time standards on a phased basis in tandem with planned service improvement. In 2013 the HSE target for patient carrying vehicles to respond within 19 minutes was 70% for echo calls, that is, life-threatening cardiac and respiratory incidents, and 68% for delta calls, that is, life-threatening other than...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Again, the Deputy across loves to talk about crises and doom and gloom and has engaged in shroud-waving on several occasions.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Sorry. I do not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Deputy Ó Caoláin is not proving to be a very serious contributor if all he can do is shout instructions across the Chamber.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: There is no bluster.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: No, sorry, Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I will answer the question and I will keep the people informed of reality and the facts, not Deputy Ó Caoláin's bluster and shroud-waving. We have had quite enough of it over the years.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Good. I am glad that Deputy Ó Caoláin has acknowledged that it is shroud-waving.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The response vehicle situation is currently being reviewed. I wish to inform Deputy Ó Caoláin again of some facts that do not quite fit the picture he likes to portray. Over 600 calls have been carried out this year already by those vehicles and over 230 of these were out-of-hours calls responded to by officers who had these vehicles at their homes and who were able to respond in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for his question. It is Government policy to move to a consultant-delivered service. I am pleased to inform the House that, since the establishment of the HSE, there has been a significant increase in the number of whole-time equivalent, WTE, consultants by 723 from 1,947 in January 2005 to 2,670 in December 2013. However, there are some specialties in which there is an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Radiologists.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Just for clarity, and I am not in any way trying to be difficult, but the Deputy mentioned radiographers. They are the people who take the pictures and are not consultants per se. Radiologists are the consultants who read the pictures. I will conclude my answer. The ability of the public service to attract and retain high-quality consultants shapes the extent to which the HSE can...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Recruitment (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The number of consultants has been increasing year on year, and that has been the case for the past number of years. In 2011, there were 2,470; in 2010 there were 2,410; in 2012 there was a further increase to 2,510 and last year the figure increased to 2,560. Year on year we are not only replacing those who are leaving but also adding to the total number. However, I must return to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Children in Care (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I note the report referred to by the Deputy which was published recently by the Office of the Ombudsman for Children. A significant part of the report refers to services provided by the Child and Family Agency, and my colleague, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, has recently responded to the issues raised in the report. As a number of the report's recommendations relate to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Children in Care (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I anticipate that the response to the last issue will come fairly soon. I would like to apologise; this is the area of the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, who is unavailable to us today due to a family bereavement. I am here in her stead. I remember that when I was on the benches across and we were discussing child care, it was about the terrible tragedy of so many deaths in care in the...