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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff Remuneration (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I have initiated this process arising from the Health Information and Quality Authority report into practices at Tallaght hospital. I requested that the Health Service Executive conduct an internal audit of all section 38 funding recipients. As a result of this audit, as has been reported extensively, a considerable number of funding recipients have been found to be in breach of Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The normal probity measures will continue in terms of regular checks. If we did not do that, we would be held to account for it in the Committee of Public Accounts.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: With regard to the last point raised by the Deputy, who manages to work himself up into a great state of indignation, both parties are very concerned about any distress being caused to medical card holders regarding uncertainty about their cards, and both parties were eager to address this. I sought the validation process, as the line Minister, because I am closest to it and understood that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: -----to ensure people have not left the country or moved on and that doctors are not being paid for services they are not delivering. I wish to make an important point.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I accept that, but this is a critical point.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: We had this discussion at a meeting of the select committee. The Deputy would like the world to believe that during his party's time in government no Supplementary Estimates were introduced in the area of health. Fianna Fáil-led Governments more than quadrupled the health budget between 1997 and 2009, but in 2010 the then Minister for Health and Children brought forward a whopping...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: Exactly. The reality is that we are facing a very challenging year. The economy is recovering, but we must continue to consider ways in which we can operate more efficiently. I again congratulate the people who work in the health service on the great job they are doing and acknowledge that waiting times have been reduced. Hundreds of thousands of people had been awaiting inpatient...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The HSE's national service plan will be placed before the Oireachtas, as required, at 10.15 a.m.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The plan took quite some time to prepare on foot of the challenges we faced. However, we have managed to address many of the main issues of concern. This does not mean that we are going to have an easy year. In fact, it is going to be a very difficult year, but we will continue to work hard to implement the plan. I reiterate that I do not wish services to be cut; rather, I wish to see the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I do not know whether there is something wrong with the air filtration system in the House. Again, a Deputy opposite is stating I referred to something as being a success. I never used that word; rather, I stated it was going to be a very challenging and difficult year. I never described anything as a success.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: If, in the context of the substantive question posed by Deputy Caoimghín Ó Caoláin, one averages out the cost of a medical card at €1,000 and if one is purely going to remove medical cards on that basis, it might not be unreasonable to assume that 113,000, 115,000 or 133,000 medical cards might be taken back. Of course, there will be many other factors involved when the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I have sympathy for Deputy Ó Caoláin. His question is as much a priority for him as Deputy Kelleher's question is for him.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I am more than happy to answer them seriatim.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: To respond to Deputy Kelleher's comment on stretching credibility, I thought that was his party's forte. As for his comment about being on an unsustainable path, we have not only sustained the health service in the past 12 months but improved it, as demonstrated by the improvements in inpatient waiting times and the number of people who must endure long waits on trolleys. These figures are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: -----service plan will be laid before the Oireachtas at 10.15 a.m. In previous years, it was often presented at this time of year or later. The budget was announced earlier this year and while we face a challenging year in 2014 in terms of the finance available to us, we had very good news this morning when the ESRI issued its growth projections for the domestic economy. The country is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I did not say that. The Deputy should correct the record.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The real problem is that the Deputy does not recognise the truth and engages in fantasy. I never said any of the words he uttered.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The Deputy should allow me to finish. We discovered that 380,000 people were on the waiting list. This is an issue that the Fianna Fáil Party in government ignored because it did not want to count the number waiting or tell people the truth. We were up-front in stating how many people were waiting. I stated it was an awesome figure but that it had to be put in context because 200,000...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Negligence Claims (18 Dec 2013)

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: Health Services Allowances (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 and 31 together. As the Deputy is aware, the HSE's internal audit report on remuneration in health service providers funded under Section 38 of the Health Act 2004 has found that there are a variety of unapproved payments being made to senior managers. Staff of these organisations are public servants and are subject to Government pay policy. The HSE...