Results 6,021-6,040 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: The committee will forgive me if I am not familiar with every service.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: As far as I am aware, COPE Foundation is a section 39 organisation and there are 2,600 such organisations.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I fully subscribe to that principle that those who step up to the bar and meet their targets should be rewarded, not penalised. I have no issue with that.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: Section 39 organisations are not subject to public pay policy but we have written to them stating that at management level they should certainly be observing it in terms of additional top-ups, pay-ups and other matters. However, they are not like section 38 organisations. They do not enjoy the same rights and privileges as public servants and they are not obliged to adhere to the public pay...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: The answer is that the gentleman Deputy Ó Caoláin alludes to is in position with his salary, terms and conditions approved by the Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. That is the reality of the situation. In answer to Deputy Ó Caoláin's question, everyone will be treated the same way. I made it clear, yesterday and at the outset of...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I just want to make sure we are clear. Deputy Ciara Conway talked about not paying PRSI on unearned income. I think what she means is privately earned income.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: That practice can be considered more historical but the outcomes are only now being realised. Families should not have to endure that sort of process to get the services they need for their children. The State Claims Agency has taken over many of the cases, which is possibly why we are seeing settlements. Furthermore, the legislation has yet to come through on periodic payments, which...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: The pension payment reduction was mentioned by Deputy Kelleher. Mr. Tom Byrne will be very happy to address that. The underspend in capital was also mentioned by Deputy Kelleher and Ms Bairbre Ni Aonghusa will address that. Can I take the opportunity to thank both the members of the Department and the HSE for being here? The issue of longevity was raised by a number of people. I would...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: The facts speak for themselves. Deputy Healy can have his views but if he looks at the facts and statistics that are verified not just by me but by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in respect of the quality counts and the ESRI in respect of our public hospitals and what they have achieved in the past few-----
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I did not interrupt the Deputy. If he wants to deny the facts for political purposes then so be it but I am actually interested in reality.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I am interested in real outcomes for patients. It is very hard when someone over on the left here wants to live in cloud cuckoo land. I will leave Deputy Healy to his prism, whatever that might be. I do not have the actual cost of agency nurses and doctors. If we do not have it here, I will certainly undertake to come back to the Deputy because that is a very reasonable question to ask....
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: We are doing that through the postgraduate training programme. What we are looking at here and what the Deputies were alluding to are specialist grades of nurses. If a paediatric intensive care unit nurse decides to leave the service, we cannot just replace them with a graduate nurse. We have to get a nurse who is trained in that area.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: That is the difficulty we face, which is why I think they are seeking to recruit in the region of 80 nurses. I want to investigate that further. I probably said that the Department and the HSE are not overlooking the opportunity to help people come into the service now and to move people who might surplus in one area to another to allow younger nurses to come into the system.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I agree 100%. That is certainly what we are trying to do in respect of the non-consultant hospital doctors. I will have Brian McGrath's interim report tomorrow. The report will contain interim recommendations and timelines for their implementation. I will make an announcement in this regard tomorrow because it is important that we keep our doctors and nurses here. They are sought after...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: Yes.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I know, but one likes to answer the questions one is asked if one can, for the information of members, in the interests of transparency and accountability.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: Gabh mo leithscéal, a Chathaoirligh.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: Deputy Kelleher's passion is alarming.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (12 Dec 2013) James Reilly: I thank the select committee for giving me the opportunity to bring this Supplementary Estimate for Vote 39 before it. The total additional funding being sought for the Health Service Executive is €219 million. However, I am allocating savings of €20 million which have been identified within my Department’s Vote towards the HSE requirement; thus, the net cost to the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (12 Dec 2013)
James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 210 and 227 together. As has been reported extensively, a considerable number of Section 38 agencies have been found to be in breach of Government pay policy with regard to the remuneration of senior staff. I have requested urgent action to ensure that every agency is fully compliant with Government pay policy. The HSE has a team of senior managers...