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Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: A new Patient Safety Agency (PSA) is to be established initially on an administrative basis within the HSE structures in 2014. The HSE will establish a Board to oversee the PSA and agree its initial governance and operational arrangements. A key role for the PSA will be to provide national leadership for patient advocacy services. The PSA will support patients by directing them to the...

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

James Reilly: The Epilepsy National Clinical Care Programme provides for the commissioning of a Regional Epilepsy Monitoring Unit to be based in Cork University Hospital. This Unit will provide accessible, comprehensive care for patients in the Southern area, particularly those with acutely unstable and disabling chronic Epilepsy. I am informed that the Unit will open no later than the 31st March 2014....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Prices (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I assume the Deputy is referring to private fees generated by some consultants who, subject to the contract they hold, may engage in privately remunerated professional medical practice in public hospitals up to a maximum of, typically, 20% of the consultant's workload. The level of such fees paid is a commercial decision made by individual health insurers. I have consistently raised the...

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

James Reilly: The Health Act 1970 (as amended) provides that all persons ordinarily resident in the country are entitled, subject to certain charges, to all in-patient public hospital services in public wards including consultant services and out-patient pubic hospital services including consultants services. For persons availing of public in-patient services, the current public hospital statutory...

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

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 744 and 745 together. These questions have been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

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

James Reilly: In relation to an individual's entitlement to publicly funded health care, eligibility for health services in Ireland is based primarily on residency and means. Determining whether a person is "ordinarily resident" is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive (HSE). The Health Act 1970 (as amended) provides for two categories of eligibility for all persons ordinarily resident in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: Applications for National Lottery grants far exceed resources and as the funds available for 2013 have been disbursed it is not possible, unfortunately, to assist in this particular case. However, if funding for this project is required in 2014, the organisation may wish to apply for a grant from the 2014 National Lottery allocation.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (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: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Community Rating (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The Risk Equalisation Scheme provides for a cost subsidy from younger, healthier people to older less healthy people and the compensation is provided in favour of the individual consumer and not in favour of any particular insurance company. A company with a worse than average risk profile (and therefore higher claims costs) will be a net beneficiary from the scheme while a company with a...

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

James Reilly: I have been informed by the HSE that 535 people are on the waiting list for renal transplant at present. The average waiting time is 29.8 months. I am committed to making every effort to increase the level of organ donation and transplantation. In 2013 a record total of 294 organ transplantations were performed in Ireland. Kidney transplantations accounted for 185 of these, with 38 of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (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: Disability Support Services Issues (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 761 and 762 together. The Government is committed to the provision and development of services for children with a disability, including early intervention and school age services, within available resources. While these services are in the process of being reconfigured under the HSE’s National Programme on Progressing Disability Services for Children...

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

James Reilly: My Department and the Health Service Executive respect an individual's choice in childbirth and their right to have a home birth. Currently in Ireland there is a National Domiciliary Midwifery service available to eligible expectant mothers who wish to avail of a home birth service under the care of a self-employed community midwife (SECM). This service is provided by the self-employed...

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

James Reilly: Notwithstanding the need to reduce the numbers employed across the public service in order to meet fiscal and budgetary targets, the HSE has the capacity to recruit consultants. Arrangements are in place in the HSE to allow the recruitment of front-line staff where there is an established service need. More generally, in order to mitigate the impact on front-line services of the reduction in...

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

James Reilly: The provisions of the European Time Working Directive encompass a number of measures to protect workers welfare and safety, including a maximum 48 hour working week - averaged over a reference period, daily and weekly rest periods and the granting of compensatory rest where the working day exceeds 13 hours. Considerable progress has been made over the last 12 months on progressing compliance...

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

James Reilly: In relation to the specific 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: Departmental Staff Remuneration (18 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: Government policy on the award of annual increments and long service increments (payable after three and six years satisfactory service on the maximum of standard incremental salary scales) is implemented for all staff in my Department subject to the restrictions and deferments which were set out in the Haddington Road Agreement.

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

James Reilly: As far as I am aware, there are no bodies under the aegis of my Department which subscribe to the service referred to by the Deputy.

Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: It is better than it was in the previous Government's day but it is still there.