Results 17,121-17,140 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 May 2014)

James Reilly: As the question relates to service matters I have arranged for its referral to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (13 May 2014)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (13 May 2014)

James Reilly: The Health Service Executive has recognised the need to increase the level of consistency and standardisation in the way services for children with disabilities are delivered. It is currently engaged in a reconfiguration of existing therapy resources to multi-disciplinary geographic based teams for children as part of its National Programme on Progressing Disability Services for Children and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies Data (13 May 2014)

James Reilly: Four bodies, National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery, National Social Workers Qualifications Board, Children Acts Advisory Board and the Drug Treatment Centre Board have been dissolved since March 2011. The extent of savings varies between organisations and the majority of staff will be redeployed to other public service bodies. Efficiencies will derive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Remuneration (13 May 2014)

James Reilly: There are a number of officers in the Department acting in different roles who are on different payscales to the standard civil service. However, they are employed on secondment arrangements whereby they hold the payscale they are properly entitled to in their parent Department or Organisation. The Department does not have any civil servants who are employed directly by the Department on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (13 May 2014)

James Reilly: The Department does not currently have any legal cases pending arising from disputes regarding pay and conditions of its staff.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Data (13 May 2014)

James Reilly: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the tabular statement. Year Average Age of Staff 2010 46 2011 46 2012 47 2013 47 May 9th 2014 48

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Travel (13 May 2014)

James Reilly: I will be attending a meeting of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) in Luxembourg on Friday 20th June 2014. Health Ministers from all 27 Member States will be present or represented. I have no other foreign trips arranged at this time. My colleague Minister Kathleen Lynch has one foreign trip arranged. She will be attending the second International Day...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: The Government has decided that the numbers employed across the public service must be reduced to meet fiscal and budgetary targets. The Deputy acknowledges this. The health sector must make its contribution to that reduction. The recruitment embargo, or moratorium, has achieved substantial reductions in employment in the public health service. The number of staff employed by the health...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: In the short time I have, I wish to address some inaccuracies. The INMO may have its own figures but we have figures which were given to me last week on the ratio of staff to patients at Portlaoise. It is 1:48, which I acknowledge is far too high. We have a task force on nursing and midwifery which will address this issue in terms of getting the skills mix right and determining safe...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy raises an important point but the moratorium is being used in a focused fashion here. We employed 750 additional nurses last year. We want to have the nurse ratios and the skills mix done properly. We have a situation where we have some model four hospitals with nine nurses per health care assistant and others with 2.8 nurses per health care assistant. We have doctors doing...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: I assure Deputy Kelleher that there will be no policy reversal. What is being done is what I have just described. A far more refined approach is being taken by focusing the staff in the places they are needed and getting the skills mix right. I already acknowledged that 1:48 is far too high but we must examine the roles of those working in our hospitals and determine how we can make better...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Medical Card Reviews (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: Senator Marc MacSharry is in very good electioneering mode.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Legal Cases (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue, which is a cause of grave concern to me. As an underlying principle, compensation moneys should go to those who have suffered harm, not to members of the legal profession. The cost of clinical indemnity scheme claims under management with the State Claims Agency, SCA, in 2013 was €119.3 million in total. This figure relates to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Legal Cases (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: I cannot stand over the last figures referred to by the Deputy. I do not know, for example, whether the legal fees paid out by the HSE include child care cases, on which a great deal of money was paid out in the period in question. I will check out those details. What is of great concern to me - it is something I pointed out repeatedly when I was on the other side of the House - is that up...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE Legal Cases (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: In principle, I have no issue whatsoever with what the Deputy is suggesting. I am exploring ways of getting the law out of this in terms of the adversarial element and looking at the New Zealand process where the maximum amount paid out is €100,000. It seeks to remedy the effects of the misadventure from the patient's point of view so that the person is supported in the community....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Commission Reports (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: It is important that mental health services, as with all parts of the health service, are subject to periodic review or audit where issues of potential concern are identified. Such review processes facilitate services to improve the quality and safety of the care and treatment provided, by identifying any matters of concern and making recommendations as to the steps necessary to address...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Commission Reports (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: I assure the Deputy there are recommendations and they are being put in place. The HSE mental health division, in conjunction with the Mental Health Commission, should review the completeness of the notification circumstances to ensure that sudden unexplained deaths in persons in receipt of services for more recently developed service problems will be captured, that is, home care and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Commission Reports (14 May 2014)

James Reilly: I take this matter very seriously. I have pointed out what has been recommended and note the word "should" appears a lot. As far as I am concerned, the word "should" will be replaced with the word "will". These are the most vulnerable people and they cannot speak for themselves. Therefore there is a requirement for us to look out for and speak up for them. I and the Minister of State,...