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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Apr 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: Ambulance Service Issues (16 Apr 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 (16 Apr 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 Consultants Recruitment (16 Apr 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: Patient Transfers (16 Apr 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 him directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Apr 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 him directly.

Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: -----but rather of the progress made by the excellent men and women in our health service who work day in and day out. What they have achieved and the progress they have made is remarkable, despite the fiscal fiasco Fianna Fáil left us. They have managed, despite reductions in staff and budgets, to realise a 34% reduction in the number of our people who must wait for long periods on...

Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: They were never measured.

Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “acknowledges ambulance service personnel for the high quality of care they provide; recognises that: — in the 12 months of 2013, ambulance services responded to over 281,000 emergency calls, an increase of almost 14,000 calls on 2012; — since 2011,...

Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: At the outset I would like to thank the Deputies for raising this issue and providing me with the opportunity to reaffirm to the House this Government's commitment to the development of our ambulance service. I will deal with some of the points raised. In recent years we have made a very significant investment in the ambulance fleet, in new technology and in our workforce. Indeed, in 2014...

Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: We are here and we are improving it in a methodical fashion. However, the Deputies have a very short memory - a convenient amnesia brought about, I suppose, by too many years in government.

Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: In order to drive improvements in response times, the bar has been raised this year and a new target has been set in the national service plan for 80% of all life threatening calls to be responded to in less than 19 minutes this year. It is worth noting that when this Government took office, as I said, there were no response time targets at all as the previous Government was not even...

Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I beg Deputy Kelleher's pardon. There was not and they did not measure them, so how could they know? This is the Fianna Fáil modus operandi, of course: if you say it often enough, it becomes so. This goes right back to Charles J. Haughey and his approach to life.

Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I should, however, caution that while response times are helpful for performance measurement, they give a very narrow view of service performance and should not be used in isolation. Accordingly, when we are assessing performance, we should also have regard to patient outcome indicators. I am pleased that the first outcome key performance indicator, which is for the return of spontaneous...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I will be brief. I thank the committee for its help and contributions. I concur with the other members that our whole purpose here is to improve legislation. No one has a monopoly on wisdom and it is important to remember that 850 new cases of melanoma occur in Ireland each year. Our message to parents is they should not do anything that makes their child likely to be one of those cases...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Tá fadhb bheag againn anseo, agus is í sin an focal "sábháilte" or "safe". The primary objective of the Bill is to protect children and those under 18 years of age from the risk of skin damage from the use of sunbeds in view of their increased risk of developing skin cancer, and we are all agreed on that. It is also to regulate the use of sunbeds by those over 18 years...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I may have a solution.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I propose that rather than take those amendments today that we have an amendment on Report Stage which would provide for removing or omitting the word "safe" rather than trying to substitute another word, and the subsections would read "a qualification in the use of sunbeds" and "prescribed training may include training on the use and operation of sunbeds".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Absolutely - that is always preferable.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (15 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: No, absolutely not.