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Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to provide reassurance regarding the future delivery of high quality and safe maternity services in the west of Ireland. I thank both Deputies for having raised this issue. Recent reports appear to suggest that some hospitals within the west-northwest group, including Mayo General Hospital, are to lose their maternity services. These reports are purely...

Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I wish to reiterate that the HIQA report into the care and treatment provided to the late Savita Halappanavar recommended that as a priority maternity services should be reviewed, and a national maternity services strategy should be developed and implemented. I have accepted that recommendation. The proposed national maternity strategy will determine the optimal configuration of maternity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: In response to Deputy Kelleher, we are very much interested in and open to the idea of Mount Carmel becoming a step-down facility. The HSE is looking into that. I do not like alluding to it as a step-down facility. What is envisaged if we were to purchase it is a facility that would have some transitional long-stay services but would focus more on rehabilitation and on getting people back...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I am fully informed of and very interested in it, which is why I am fully informed of it. I am fully informed of the fact that there is a 50-bed unit in Inchicore to which St. James's has access in order to address the issue referred to by the Deputy. I am also fully informed of the fact that there is planning permission for an eight-storey building in order to allow for the decanting of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: On Deputy Kelleher’s points, I referred in my speech to other considerations. We have discussed the maternity end of this because Mount Carmel was the only private maternity hospital, whereas there are many other private hospitals dealing with the general medical care. It is important we deal in facts. In 2004, there were 16 private hospitals in the Republic of Ireland. Today,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: Not by me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Closure of Mount Carmel Hospital: Discussion (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Chairman and members of the committee for inviting me here today to discuss the closure of Mount Carmel Hospital. I recognise fully that the loss of the hospital has come as a blow and, to some, a shock. It created some uncertainty for patients and prospective patients, and the HSE stepped in quickly to ensure a seamless transfer to other maternity services where required....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 671 to 674, inclusive, together. The High Court proceedings with the Information Commissioner and also the Circuit Court proceedings, initiated by the Office of the Ombudsman, are on-going and accordingly I am not in a position to make any further comment, as these matters are sub judice. The legal costs of the Department associated with these proceedings are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards Regulation (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: Ireland has asked the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to compile information on the prevalence within the European Union of each of the 14 food allergies specified in the EU food labelling legislation. We have also asked for EFSA's recommendation for threshold concentrations for each allergen in food that would provide an acceptable level of protection for at-risk consumers. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: As the issue raised by the Deputy relates to an individual case, this is a service matter for the Health Service Executive. I have asked the HSE to look into the particular matter raised and to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (18 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: Health Services Provision (18 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: Health Services Provision (18 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: Hepatitis C Compensation Payments (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: In my reply to PQ No. 238 of 6th February, 2014, I set out the payments, surpluses and deficits pertaining to the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Tribunal for the years 2007-2010. As stated in the reply, there was an error in the published accounts for 2009 which led to the Surplus/(Deficit) carried forward to 2010 being listed as a surplus of €106,672,203 rather than a deficit of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 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: Symphysiotomy Report (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: On 26 November Government approved the appointment of retired Circuit Court Judge Yvonne Murphy to assist in setting out a possible course of action in relation to women who have undergone surgical symphysiotomies. Judge Murphy has been asked to meet a number of key interested parties, particularly the support groups for the women, and also the State Claims Agency, and the insurers....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I assume the Deputy is referring to the standard Accident and Emergency charge of €100, which is payable across all hospitals. The Health (Out-Patient Charges) Regulations 2013 provides for a €100 charge for out-patient services provided at an emergency department, an accident and emergency department, a casualty department, a minor injury unit, an urgent care centre, a local...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 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: Departmental Staff Career Breaks (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: There are currently three people in my Department on Career Break. Of these, two are mid-way through the one year Career Break that they initially applied for and a third is in year four.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Sick Leave (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The statistical information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table. The average overall sick days per employee over the four year period was 10.42 and relates to employees of the Department of Health and Children up to 1st June 2011 and Department of Health thereafter. - 2009 2010 2011 2012 Total uncertified sick days 520.09 437.93 436.26 261.70 Average uncertified sick days...