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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (6 May 2014)

James Reilly: I refer the Deputy to my letter to him of 25th April in which I outlined that I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to him directly on this matter, as it is a service issue. As the Deputy is aware, the Health Service Executive has fifteen working days in which to respond to such queries. I have also referred this Parliamentary Question to the Health Service Executive, which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 May 2014)

James Reilly: 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 hospital appointment query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (6 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: Hospital Staff Recruitment (6 May 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: Hospital Appointment Delays (6 May 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: Hospital Appointment Status (6 May 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 2013,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 Services (6 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: Hospital Appointment Status (6 May 2014)

James Reilly: In relation to the Deputy's further question in this matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to him directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (6 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: Hospital Car Park Charges (6 May 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: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 May 2014)

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

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy. He has outlined the considerable improvements in Cavan General Hospital, including the expansion of the renal dialysis unit from ten to 18 stations in 2011, thus enabling patients to access dialysis locally instead of having to travel to Dublin three times a week. The paediatric assessment unit opened in July 2011, with 5,000 patients assessed and treated in a dedicated...

Topical Issue Debate: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. As he knows, I visited Cavan General Hospital not long ago as we met at the time. From January to the start of April this year there were just 195 patients waiting on trolleys at the hospital, whereas in 2011, during the same period, there were 1,825 patients waiting on trolleys. This is a decrease of almost 89.3% on the number who must...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 12: In page 22, line 39, after "service" to insert “or relevant communication".This is a drafting amendment which is designed to align section 20(1) and (2) in terms of the references they contain to relevant communication. The purpose of section 20 is to provide that a health service provider who has been issued with a provider identifier must associate that...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Chairman and members for their time and courtesy. Our debate has helped in improving the Bill. In many respects, it will also, just as importantly, assist people in understanding the Bill's purpose.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: We are back to the core point. The IHI is simply a method of identification, nothing else. Health service providers can access the IHI register to give a person his or her IHI. The full value of the new system will be reached when we have e-health rolled out right across the system in a coherent and connected fashion, which is not the case at the moment. I was horrified to learn that not...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: There may well be. The point, however, is that it is not ultimately about the number of systems but the degree of connectivity between them and having a portal through which they can all interact. This is not an issue unique to Ireland. It is a problem I discussed with the Swedish Minister only a few days ago at an EU meeting. A coherent e-health strategy is critical from the point of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 10: In page 14, to delete lines 7 and 8 and substitute the following:"(2) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), a specified person may access the National Register of Individual Health Identifiers for a relevant purpose. (b) Subject to section 3(6) and (8), a specified person who falls within a class of specified persons prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph (which may be...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 11: In page 15, to delete lines 25 to 36 and substitute the following:"(b) The Minister may provide an individual's relevant information (individual) to an authorised disclosee in order to enable the authorised disclosee to process that information for a secondary purpose. (c) Subject to paragraph (d), a specified person may, for a relevant purpose, process or further...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage (1 May 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy has made clear the intention of the amendment. It removes from me the right to put in place provisions to inform people of their individual health identifier and makes it an obligation upon me that everyone would have to be informed. This would have major cost implications and it might also compromise the privacy of the system. I have no issue with the principle of what Deputy...