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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Absolutely - that is always preferable.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I will be brief. I thank the committee for its help and contributions. I concur with the other members that our whole purpose here is to improve legislation. No one has a monopoly on wisdom and it is important to remember that 850 new cases of melanoma occur in Ireland each year. Our message to parents is they should not do anything that makes their child likely to be one of those cases...

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The current health system is both unaffordable and unfair. That it is unaffordable is evidenced by the fact that the spend relating to it quadrupled between 1997 and 2009 and that in January 2011 there were 569 people lying on trolleys in hospitals throughout the country. It is unfair because it gives rise to a situation whereby people are often treated on the basis of what they can afford,...

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I am examining their systems. I am not following them. I made that clear-----

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: We will stay as we are then.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Thirty-seven million euro extra.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Fianna Fáil is reinventing the wheel.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: How can the Deputy justify that statement?

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: More money has gone into primary care, not less. The Deputy's rhetoric is meaningless.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: There are more general practitioners in the GMS now - more than 250 - than there were two years ago.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The facts worry him.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I want the public to have an opportunity to feed into that.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy's party was in government for 14 years and produced nothing. It still does not have a policy.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: There has been a massive drop.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Hilarious. I will have to correct the record.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: There has been a 95% reduction in the number of people waiting for a year or longer for outpatient appointments.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy thinks he is back in a college debate. Some drop of reality would be good.

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (16 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: That has been proven to be untrue.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Apr 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: Ambulance Service Issues (16 Apr 2014)

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