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

James Reilly: Nobody ever said that everything was okay.

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Referral to Select Committee (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Health pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business.

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

James Reilly: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

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

James Reilly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to introduce the Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013 to the House. The Bill provides for the disestablishment of the Vote of the Health Service Executive and the funding of the executive through the Vote of the Office of the Minister for Health. It also provides for a new statutory financial governance...

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I was going to say I am a lonely man as I gaze across this Chamber without seeing another soul in it.

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I am well covered from behind, but there is nobody in front.

Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in Ireland. It represents a major public health challenge in both the short and long terms. For most people, the main source of exposure to ultraviolet radiation is the sun. However, there is clear evidence that some people are exposed to high doses of ultraviolet radiation through artificial sources. Sunbeds and sunlamps used for tanning...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I would not have that level of detail available to me here but I know that in the past, we talked about saving one life per week and avoiding three people per week going into long-term care as a consequence of this initiative. Those figures have almost doubled and I look forward to an ever-increasing number of people receiving better outcomes from our health service, specifically in this...

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Issues (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: As the Deputy has acknowledged, we have approved more posts for Letterkenny. The reality is there is a difficulty in recruiting but we continue to recruit actively and to use agency locums to ensure we provide a safe service for the people of Letterkenny. I congratulate the staff of Letterkenny General Hospital and the wider hospital group which provided support from Galway from Bill Maher...

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Issues (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: The Deputy will be aware from earlier responses to questions that the model of care needs to change in both hospitals and in general practice. We need to move away from this episodic illness approach to a system of prevention and chronic illness management in primary care. The Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, is dealing with this aspect and he is in consultation with the GP...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I look forward to going to Cork but I will have to get a passport from the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, before I set foot in Cork. Cork University Hospital provides a full, comprehensive range of stroke related services, including neuro-radiology, which includes intra-arterial thrombolysis. In plain language that means administering a drug to break up a clot causing the...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 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. The executive management board of Cork University Hospital allocated ward...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: Cad é an ceist?

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: With respect, what is truly important is to ensure patients have this excellent service available to them in Cork. Last week I was in Beaumont Hospital at the opening of its new unit where I met the staff there and some of the patients. It is a state of the art unit with the latest technological equipment available and the staff will now be able to diagnose with much greater accuracy the...

Other Questions: Hospital Staff Issues (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for the question. The number of non-consultant hospital doctors, NCHDs, in the public health system has increased by more than 200 in recent years and now exceeds 4,900. However, there are international shortages of NCHDs in certain categories and specialties. There are also some hospitals, such as Letterkenny, to which it has been difficult to attract NCHDs, for a range...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I have been advised by the HSE that Tallaght hospital has entered into a service level agreement with the Mater Private Hospital, approved by the HSE, for the provision of spinal surgery. Under this agreement, 630 patients who had been awaiting an outpatient spinal appointment for more than 12 months were transferred to the Mater Private and will be reviewed by specialist surgeons there. In...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: We all agree that the priority is for patients to be seen as quickly as possible, and sometimes that requires us to use public funding to purchase services in the private sector. I do not have an ideological or other issue with that but I want to see the issue fixed in the public sector. I should point out to the Deputy that it takes quite a while to get a consultant surgeon, a consultant...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I accept the Deputy is concerned about the embargo, which is not an unreasonable position. I have made it clear that over 700 nurses were recruited last year. The embargo - or employment control framework - remains in place but, as I have stated on many occasions, it has never been implemented so rigidly as to not allow us recruit where we felt it was necessary. One of the big problems in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Issues (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: I am aware that the previous Minister for Health received representations from the then Minister for Finance in 2006 about the maternity unit at Portlaoise. As overall responsibility for the management and delivery of health services rests with the HSE, the correspondence was forwarded to the executive for attention, as appropriate. The HSE replied directly to the Minister for Finance,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospital Staff Issues (13 Feb 2014)

James Reilly: There is a report being compiled by the Chief Medical Officer. He and I met three of the families concerned. Like the Deputy, I reiterate my sympathies on their losses and I apologise for the way they were treated subsequent to their losses. I am committed to a transparent and accountable health service and a patient safety agency that will be set up in the next quarter so that patients...