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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Training (18 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (18 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank Deputies for their contributions to the debate. While I wholeheartedly agree that the scourge of adults and minors misusing scramblers and quad bikes in public parks must be dealt with, I do not think the solution to the problem involves broadening the definition of a "public place", as defined in the Road Traffic Acts, to include public parks. If we were to change the definition...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank the Deputy. This question has been raised by Deputies from all sides of the House numerous times recently. I know the cohort of people is very small. It is very frustrating because we would all like to see the process concluded as speedily as possible. However, as the Deputy will be aware, this process is governed by legislation, the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods)...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: Does the Deputy's query refer to the transfer date?

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I am informed that, post transfer, employees will retain whatever they have on the day of transfer.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: The Bill refers to an employee's "terms and conditions of service including those relating to tenure of office, or of remuneration" not being less beneficial "than those terms and conditions of service or of remuneration to which he or she was subject immediately before the day of transfer." If the Deputy wants any further clarity, I will be happy to get if for her before Report Stage.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: Would the Deputy mind submitting it to me so that we can be absolutely clear?

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank the Chair and members for their co-operation.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I appreciate where the Deputy is coming from. She has a long-standing tradition in promoting the rights of workers. I respect that. Every members of the board is tasked in legislation with respecting the rights and the needs of the workers and the patients. To abdicate that role to one member of the board can presuppose that the other members of the board do not have a responsibility in...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I do not propose to accept amendments Nos. 9 and 10. These amendments relate to the appearance of the CEO before the Committee of Public Accounts. The purpose for which the CEO appears before the Committee of Public Accounts is for the committee to examine and report to Dáil Éireann on the annual financial statements and reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General on Children's...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: As I understand it, the Deputy's issue is with current expenditure. Am I correct in that?

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I am trying to explain to her that current expenditure will refer primarily to service provision. If the hospital wishes to extend its range of services, borrowing may become a part of that. If they can secure income, for example, if they were to go into another jurisdiction and offer procedures to patients from the North of Ireland, paid for by that jurisdiction, they could provide a...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: The Deputy can answer that herself. She can look at history. This is to expand new ranges of services, allowing the entity itself to be creative, to modernise and to be progressive, if it so wishes. That is all we are doing. We are not compelling it to borrow money. We are not instructing it; we are only saying if the entity decides and if it clears the checks and balances in the...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I do not propose to accept the amendment. It relates to the appointment process of board members to the board of Children's Health Ireland. As provided for in the Bill, all members will be appointed by the Minister. Section 13 refers to membership of the board on establishment day - the first board. The Bill has been drafted so that the existing Children's Hospital Group board, a...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I do not propose to accept amendment No. 1. The legal name of the new body under this Bill is Children's Health Ireland and this broad name reflects the object and functions of the new body, which are broader than just a hospital as the Minister mentioned during the Second Stage debate. It is considered that it may be useful for the new body to also have an operational or brand name. The...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank the Deputy. The new body will have to have an arrangement with multiple universities, academic institutions and research entities due to its national remit in the education of health care professionals in paediatrics and engagement in paediatric research. The formal arrangements between the universities and the new body will require some corporate identity to be decided. While this...

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: St. James's Hospital has that facility at present.

Select Committee on Health: Children's Health Bill 2018: Committee Stage (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I was trying to future proof the viability of an institution that we are establishing here. That can become part of modern day medical practice. The hospital may want to go into services for the cross-jurisdictional area or it may want to expand an existing services and to treat people from another jurisdiction. They may wish to borrow money to set up that service and the hospital may be...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Therapy Services (17 Oct 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank the Senator for raising this issue. On behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, I am happy to provide an update to the House on therapeutic services in Scoil Cara junior school. As the Senator may be aware, Scoil Cara is one of a number of primary schools for children with autism in Cork. It was established in 2011, as outlined by the Senator, following...