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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Inspections (2 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The provisions of the Health Act 2007 do not confer any powers on the Health Information and Quality Authority to set or monitor standards in private hospitals. However, healthcare professionals, such as doctors and nurses employed in private hospitals, are required to be registered with their relevant professional body. Work is currently underway in my Department on legislative proposals...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (2 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB) provides emergency ambulance services in Dublin city and county, by arrangement between Dublin City Council and the HSE. The HSE National Ambulance Service (NAS) provides some emergency capacity in the greater Dublin area, as well as non-emergency patient transport. The ongoing development of pre-hospital emergency care involves a range of initiatives, including...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (2 Apr 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: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The HSE has recognised the need to increase the level of consistency and standardisation in the way services for children with disabilities are delivered. It is currently engaged in a reconfiguration of existing therapy resources to multidisciplinary geographic based teams for children as part of the National Programme on Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People (0-18...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (2 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The National Ambulance Service is working to modernise and reconfigure its services to ensure emergency pre-hospital care is delivered in an appropriate and timely manner. As with pre-hospital care in other jurisdictions, development and modernisation is an ongoing process, as technology and clinical standards change. While accepting the need to further improve performance, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (2 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: There is no record of payment by my Department to any of the organisations referred to by the Deputy for the period concerned.

Patient Safety Authority: Hospital Staff (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputies for their contributions and the tone in which this debate has been held. We are all trying to improve services for our people. There is no more emotive issue than services for our children. I will endeavour to get a copy of the letter that Mr. Murphy wrote, review it and have my Department review it before next Tuesday's meeting. I also listened to Deputy Pearse...

Patient Safety Authority: Hospital Staff (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputies for raising this issue, which is clearly of considerable importance and concern to parents in Donegal. I also thank Deputies Mac Lochlainn, Doherty, Pringle and McConalogue for affording me the opportunity to reassure parents of children with diabetes and adults with diabetes that the restructuring of nursing resources for diabetes in Letterkenny will not result in a...

Patient Safety Authority (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I thank Deputy Twomey for raising this critical issue. Patient safety must be at the heart of everything we do in health. It is a priority issue for me and the Government. It was for this reason patient safety was the primary focus of the 2014 national service plan for the HSE. It is also the reason we decided to expedite the patient safety agency through the HSE on an administrative...

Patient Safety Authority (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I agree with the Deputy that the new agency must be underpinned by legislation. In the interests of getting it up and running quickly and teasing out any problems in that regard, I believe it is sensible to introduce it on an administrative basis first. When I spoke to the parents of the children who died in Portlaoise Hospital, they indicated their concern that such an agency should be...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Despite the steepest health cutbacks in the history of the State, we are spending more money and attending to more patients and, crucially, more life threatening emergency calls in under 19 minutes than in previous years. While we are making progress, I acknowledge that we have more work to do. Nobody should wait on the side of the road with a loved one in their hour of need, fearful of...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The outcome for the patient is more important than the time required for the ambulance to arrive.

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Deputy Calleary appears to hold the view that the operation can be a success, even if the patient dies. Additional information not given on the floor of the House An independent capacity analysis of the national ambulance service conducted by the UK Association of Ambulance Chief Executives will be completed this autumn. This will compare resources to demand and activity levels nationwide....

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: To respond to Deputy Cowen, who clearly does not want to listen, I believe people will listen. As I stated, nobody denies that the ambulance service needs to improve and that reviews are required to inform such improvement. I look forward to the Health Information and Quality Authority report. All Deputies will acknowledge that HIQA is an independent regulator and has always acted...

Other Questions: Health Insurance Prices (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy pointed his finger down, which is where he left the economy.

Other Questions: Health Insurance Prices (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: The Fianna Fáil way is to ask a question and listen to its own answer. Good man, Barry.

Other Questions: Health Insurance Prices (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: Do we want to have a conversation or just the Deputy asking questions and answering them himself?

Other Questions: Health Insurance Prices (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: As I have said in the Chamber before, there is a figure of 250,000. It is also the case that 250,000 people lost their jobs, 250,000 extra medical cards were issued and 250,000 people gave up their health insurance. I did not say they were all one and the same people, but there must have been some relationship. I accept that the cost of private health insurance has increased. I have...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for his question and, in particular, for acknowledging the great work done by front-line staff in our ambulance service. Every day across the State, our paramedics attend to an average of 769 patients. The workforce includes approximately 1,700 people, including national ambulance service paramedics and the Dublin Fire Brigade ambulance service. The Government is...

Other Questions: Ambulance Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: It was the little fiscal fiasco the Deputies' Government left us to deal with. We had to get our financial sovereignty back. Those little issues are important to the ordinary man and woman in the street as they seek to get re-employed having been put out of work by the Deputies' Government.