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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (26 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The number of people holding private health insurance at the end of 2013 was 2.052 million. This figure includes people enrolled with the four commercial health insurers and Restricted Membership Undertakings (RMU's provide insurance to people who are members of a particular group, normally a vocational group or employees of a particular organisation). The Health Insurance Authority have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (26 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: My Department's total expenditure on consultancy over the past three years including legal services from 2011-2013 is as per the table. My Department is aware of the need to minimise legal costs and, in general, avails of legal services and advice from the Attorney General and the Office of the Chief State Solicitor. The main purpose of the public procurement process is to ensure that goods,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Appointments to State Boards (26 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The Government Decision S21590E of March, 1995 regarding the appointment of women to State Bodies states that there is a requirement for a minimum of 40% of both men and women appointed as Ministerial representatives to all State Bodies. Although the overall current membership of State boards under the aegis of my Department is well balanced, with 58% of the membership being male and 42%...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Semi-State Bodies Issues (26 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: There is no employee share ownership scheme in place in the Voluntary Health Insurance Board, which is the only commercial semi-state agency under my remit.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: As the particular issue raised by the Deputy relates to an individual case, this is a service matter for the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hepatitis C Compensation Payments (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The error in the published accounts of the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal for 2009 to which I referred in previous PQ replies did not also occur in 2008, and the documented surplus of €106,672,203 referred to previously was not an accumulation over 2008 and 2009. The Tribunal decided to compile the 2010 Annual Report in-house for reasons of cost. The Tribunal advises that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The Irish Medicines Board is the statutory body responsible for the authorisation of marketing permission for pharmaceutical products and the monitoring of possible adverse reactions to such products. Therefore, I have asked the IMB to reply directly to the Deputy in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Feb 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: Public Health Policy (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The item the Deputy refers to is an e-cigarette. My Department does not have information on the number of smokers using e-cigarettes to assist them in giving up smoking. Tobacco Free Ireland, Ireland’s tobacco control policy, states that the general consensus at European level is that there is a lack of research in relation to the long term health effects of e-cigarettes and a lack...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Graduate Nursing Scheme Issues (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: My Department has not received a proposal to provide a postgraduate course to facilitate psychiatric nurses transferring to general nursing. However, should such a proposal be made, my Chief Nursing Officer would be happy to examine it in the context of the range of nurse training programmes which are provided.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (25 Feb 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: Wind Energy Guidelines (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy Chief Medical Officer has advised that following a request from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the health effects of wind turbines, a review of the published literature was conducted. This was a general overview mainly based on a comprehensive 2009 literature review conducted by the Australian Government’s National Health and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Sick Leave (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The Interim Scheme of Age-Related Tax Credits and Health Insurance Levy was in operation from 2009-2012. Under the scheme age related tax credits were provided at source in respect of qualifying members. These credits were funded by a community rating levy paid by insurers on all health insurance contracts effected or renewed until the scheme ended on 31 December 2012. The final levy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: My Department is finalising a national plan on rare diseases which is set in the context of the Council recommendation of 8th June 2009. While no specific rare disease is mentioned, the Council decision declared that it is estimated that there are between 5,000 and 8,000 rare diseases; and hence it states that the specificities of rare diseases are: - A limited number of patients and; - A...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: As this is an operational issue, I have requested the Health Service Executive to reply directly to the Deputy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 671 and 672 together. As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (25 Feb 2014)

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