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Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (3 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: Section 15 and Section 20 of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act provides that I, as the Minister for Health, must publish a report covering the operation of the Act in the preceding year by 30th June each year and lay it before the Houses of the Oireachtas. As the Act was commenced on the 1st January 2014, the first annual report covering its operation will be published in June...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (3 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 217, 218 and 219 together. The Guidance Document has been developed to assist health professionals in operating the Act when providing care to pregnant women with life threatening conditions. The document identifies specific referral pathways for the implementation of different sections of the Act as well as setting out the roles and responsibilities of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (3 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: Data Protection (3 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 224 to 227, inclusive, together. The HSE has confirmed that the Healthcare Pricing Office (HPO) to which the reports at the weekend referred, does not make hospital patients’ personal records available to pharmaceutical companies, insurers or any other companies. The HPO may provide statistics on hospital activity to third parties. Such...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Abortion Legislation (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: To confirm the Senator's interpretation, it is absolutely the case that the Government will make it very clear that our position is to protect the right to life of the newborn. With regard to the Senator's question, I would have to consult the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade before I would be in a position to revert to him.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Abortion Legislation (2 Jul 2014)

James Reilly: To provide clarity for Senators on what is being discussed, the following question was submitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe: "What specific steps will the Committee of Ministers take in order to guarantee that foetuses who survive abortions are not deprived of the medical treatment that they are entitled to - as human persons born alive - according to the European...

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....

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,...

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

James Reilly: I thank the Senators for their co-operation and support for the Bill. I also thank the Department and all of those who worked on the Bill. An issue relating to the Bill was reported in The Sunday Business Postwhich indicated that patients' records were somehow made available to pharmaceutical companies and insurers. I want to put on the record of the House the fact that the HSE has...

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

James Reilly: Yes.

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.

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...

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.