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Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Screening Programmes (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I thank Deputies McEntee and O'Donnell for raising this important issue and I welcome the opportunity to speak to it. BreastCheck, the national breast screening programme, currently offers a mammogram every two years to women aged 50 to 64. This service is provided free of charge by the HSE through its national screening services, and BreastCheck is now in its 15th year of screening, having...

Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Screening Programmes (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I reiterate our commitment in the programme for Government to do this, although Deputies will be aware of the serious budgetary reductions which have occurred over the past years to facilitate our getting this country back on its feet. The Government has done that very successfully to date. There are great challenges in this year's budget with competing priorities and public health,...

Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." We are sleepwalking through a public health epidemic and its time we woke up. Every year, 5,200 Irish people die from smoking. That figure is worth reflecting on. Almost one in five deaths is smoking related. This decade, a population with the capacity to fill the Aviva Stadium will die needlessly as a result of this deadly addiction....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy may wish to note that, as the Act was commenced on 1st January 2014, the first annual report covering its operation will be published in June 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Jul 2014)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: In the context of the Government's decision to develop a policy framework for providing eligibility for health services on the basis of medical conditions, the Government recently announced that a medical card or GP visit card is to be issued to a person, with a serious illness, whose discretionary card was refused renewal since the centralisation of medical card assessments. If the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Bed Data (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 157, 159 and 164 together. The Deputy's questions relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to her.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: In relation to the detailed information requested by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to her directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The Chief Medical Officer was quoting from a European Union Study - DG Sanco report entitled "A Study on liability and the health costs of smoking” for all EU countries. The figures outlined in that report are as follows: Health expenditure on smoking attributable diseases - 498 million Productivity losses due to absenteeism - 15 million Long-term incapacity caused by smoking...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The allocations in respect of the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal under Vote 38 Department of Health in 2013 were €24.786m under Subhead F3 (Payments to a Special Account established under Section 10 of the Hepatitis C Compensation Tribunal Acts 1997 and 2002) and €3.849m under Subhead F4 (Payments to a Reparation Fund established under Section 11 of the Hepatitis C...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: In relation to the particular patient query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to him directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: My Department has received an application for funding from the 2014 National Lottery allocation from the organisation in question. This is one of a large number of applications currently being assessed. The organisation will be informed of the outcome of the application as soon as a decision has been made.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: In relation to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters they have been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (2 Jul 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 2014,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...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: Amendments Nos. 1, 2 and 5 were necessary owing to the renumbering caused by the substantive amendment No. 7, while amendment No. 6 was a drafting amendment to bring it into line with amendment No. 7. The objective of amendments Nos. 6 and 7 was to introduce an explicit public interest consideration where the Minister was making regulations on the following matters. Those are adding to the...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: This group comprises amendments Nos. 3 and 4. The Bill provides that the individual health identifier and its related identifying particulars, called relevant information, can be used for relevant purposes, namely, primary and secondary purposes. The amendments relate to a better focusing of the secondary purposes in the Bill. Consequently, I will report on them together. In the Bill as...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I will now report on amendments Nos. 8 and 9. Section 10 provides for access to the national individual health identifier register by the Minister and specified persons, including health professionals, their employees and agents, health organisations, their employees and agents, and other bodies. The potential number of specified persons is, therefore, large. As the section stood after the...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: Amendment No. 10 is a drafting amendment to align subsections (1) and (2) of section 20 in terms of references to "relevant communication". Section 20 deals with the use of the health services provider identifier and the related national register.