Results 17,021-17,040 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 3: In page 10, to delete lines 19 and 20 and substitute the following:“(d) the carrying out of health research that is the subject of a research ethics approval (or any cognate expression) under an enactment or European act prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph,”.The Bill provides that the IHI and its related identifying particulars - called relevant...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I appreciate what the Deputy and Chairman have said. I, too, have a concern about the matter which I have been very clear about and that is why we ran it by the Data Protection Commissioner. I do not want to mention names but recently we had a very sad case concerning somebody who passed away. People will know who I am talking about. It has turned out that 113 people listed with the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I know that we can all have a reputation for being difficult. I do not believe for one moment that the Deputy is being difficult. I appreciate that he has a duty of care to the people who elected him to reassure them and I am delighted to have the opportunity to do so for the people who elected me. The only value in this from a researcher's point of view would be to be assured they have...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I have no issue with that. My officials will certainly look at it again but I think they have closed it off. I reiterate that just because one gets approval to look at the individual health identifiers one still needs the patients' consent to use their medical data. There is no medical data on individual health identifiers register; it is purely an identification register. We will...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, to delete lines 25 and 26 and substitute the following:"(g) any-(i) processing of relevant information (individuals) required to protect or prevent injury or other damage to the health or safety of an individual, (ii) processing of relevant information (individuals) required by or under an enactment, rule of law or equity or order of a court, (iii)...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, line 30, to delete "section 3(4)and (5)" and substitute "section 3(5)and (8)".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 6: In page 11, line 3, to delete "The Minister shall not" and substitute "Subject to subsection (9),the Minister shall not".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 7: In page 11, to delete lines 8 to 19 and substitute the following:"(4) Subject to subsection (9),the Minister shall not prescribe a processing of relevant information (individuals) relating to health for the purposes ofsubparagraph (iv)of paragraph (g)of the definition of "secondary purpose" in section 2(1)unless he or she is satisfied that it is in the public interest...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: The words that the Deputy seeks to delete could send the wrong signal about the purpose of the Bill. It is purely and simply an identifier, nothing else, and it is critically important to be clear on that point. The other issue that has been raised is for another day. The purpose of this Health Identifiers Bill is to put in place a legislative framework for the individual health...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy has made clear the intention of the amendment. It removes from me the right to put in place provisions to inform people of their individual health identifier and makes it an obligation upon me that everyone would have to be informed. This would have major cost implications and it might also compromise the privacy of the system. I have no issue with the principle of what Deputy...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I reiterate that when a person attends a health care giver or health service provider the provider will have a number as well as access to the register and can feed numbers into the register. If a person does not have an IHI it can be organised there and then to give him a number. It is not intended that people would have a card. Anyone can get his IHI from the HSE or its successor if he...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: We are back to the core point. The IHI is simply a method of identification, nothing else. Health service providers can access the IHI register to give a person his or her IHI. The full value of the new system will be reached when we have e-health rolled out right across the system in a coherent and connected fashion, which is not the case at the moment. I was horrified to learn that not...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: There may well be. The point, however, is that it is not ultimately about the number of systems but the degree of connectivity between them and having a portal through which they can all interact. This is not an issue unique to Ireland. It is a problem I discussed with the Swedish Minister only a few days ago at an EU meeting. A coherent e-health strategy is critical from the point of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 10: In page 14, to delete lines 7 and 8 and substitute the following:"(2) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), a specified person may access the National Register of Individual Health Identifiers for a relevant purpose. (b) Subject to section 3(6) and (8), a specified person who falls within a class of specified persons prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph (which may be...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 11: In page 15, to delete lines 25 to 36 and substitute the following:"(b) The Minister may provide an individual's relevant information (individual) to an authorised disclosee in order to enable the authorised disclosee to process that information for a secondary purpose. (c) Subject to paragraph (d), a specified person may, for a relevant purpose, process or further...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 12: In page 22, line 39, after "service" to insert “or relevant communication".This is a drafting amendment which is designed to align section 20(1) and (2) in terms of the references they contain to relevant communication. The purpose of section 20 is to provide that a health service provider who has been issued with a provider identifier must associate that...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Chairman and members for their time and courtesy. Our debate has helped in improving the Bill. In many respects, it will also, just as importantly, assist people in understanding the Bill's purpose.

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Card Eligibility (6 May 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. To clarify, an additional €37 million in funding was made available in the budget for the specific purpose of providing free GP care for children aged six years and under. We are not taking money from anybody else to fund the initiative. Under the Health Act 1970, persons who are unable, without undue hardship, to arrange GP services for...

Topical Issue Debate: Medical Card Eligibility (6 May 2014)

James Reilly: During 2013 the HSE issued 644,858 review notices. As of 27 February 2014, assessments of eligibility had been concluded of 482,000 medical card holders and continuing eligibility was confirmed in respect of 465,000, or 96.4%, of these individuals. Some 17,258 medical cards, or 3.6%, were not renewed because the eligibility criteria, that is, the income thresholds, were not met. In a...

Topical Issue Debate: Symphysiotomy Issues (6 May 2014)

James Reilly: First, I wish to put on the record of the House that I have met the survivors of symphysiotomy on several occasions during the period to which the Deputy refers. Second, no one is coercing anyone into anything. To effectively and comprehensively provide indemnity to hospitals and their patients in the event of a medical mishap, the State introduced the clinical indemnity scheme in 2002....