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Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Relations Contracts Data (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The Press and Communications Office of my Department liaise with the media on behalf of the Department as well as all Ministers and do not use the services of a PR company. My Department has not spent any money on public relations or communications consultants from March 2011 to date. It is the policy in my Department only to engage the services of external consultants where it is felt to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. In relation to the specific case raised by the Deputy, as this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 691 and 692 together. My Department operates a shared ICT service which, in addition to supporting the business of the Department of Health also provides IT support for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and its agencies. While my Department does engage external contractors for specific services, such as software development and network support,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Appointments to State Boards (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The nomination and appointment process for boards of bodies under the aegis of the Department of Health is set out in legislation. In line with Government Decision S180/20/10/1424 of 2011, relating to the advertising for expressions of interest in vacancies on State Boards, my Department currently advertises for board vacancies as they arise, where I, as Minister for Health, have nominating...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. In relation to the specific case raised by the Deputy, as this is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Complaints Procedures (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter the HSE has been requested to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: As this is an operational matter, I have referred the question to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Diagnoses (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: As the issue raised by the Deputy relates to an individual case, this is a service matter for the Health Service Executive. I have asked the HSE to look into the particular matter raised and to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: Since March 2011, twenty Bills have been published by my Department. The number of Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIAs) that have been published is three. Separately, in relation to the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013, the Report of the Expert Group on the judgment in A, B and C v Ireland,which was published, served the purposes of the RIA process.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Debt Collection (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: Neither my Department nor the agencies under its aegis have ever engaged the services of a debt collection agency. This question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Complaints Procedures (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: If a person has a specific complaint related to an experience of an individual in our hospitals, there is a formal complaints policy, entitled “Your Service Your Say”,details of which are on the HSE website, at In accordance with this procedure, a complaint must be made in the first instance to the hospital in which the incident causing the complaint occurred. I note from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Civil Registration Legislation (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: This question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The cost of extending the BreastCheck screening programme to women aged 65 to 69 years will depend on details of the approach to be taken to such extension and on the timing of the role out of services to the entire cohort involved. The costs will be considered further in the context of the Estimates process.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: Please see the following list of maternity units as requested. In relation to the detailed information requested by the Deputy, as this data is not collated by my Department, I have asked the Health Service Executive to provide the information requested directly to him.1.Coombe Women’s and Infants University Hospital; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; and .

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Transport (8 Jul 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: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: The particular issue raised by the Deputy is a service matter for the Health Service Executive. Accordingly I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (8 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I understand that the Health Service Executive wrote to the Deputy on 13th June in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (8 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: As this is an operational matter, I have referred the PQ to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 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...