Results 6,141-6,160 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (5 Dec 2013)

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: Public Sector Pensions Issues (4 Dec 2013)

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: HSE Staff Remuneration (4 Dec 2013)

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: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Dec 2013)

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: HSE Staffing (4 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: As the Deputy will be aware, the Health Service Executive has operational responsibility for the delivery of health and personal social services within the ambit of its Vote (Vote 39). The particular issue raised by the Deputy is a service matter for the Health Service Executive. Accordingly I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions Issues (4 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: As mother and baby homes were first required to register (with local authorities) in 1934, the information requested by the Deputy is not readily available within this Department. All such local authority records would be held in the National Archives. The search and retrieval of the information requested would therefore be very costly and time consuming to assemble. However, the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (4 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The Office of the Revenue Commissioners is responsible for dealing with tackling the illicit trade in cigarettes and tobacco products, and treats it as an issue of high priority. Revenue has advised me that the tax stamp, which contains a range of sophisticated security features, is a key means for them to distinguish between legal and illegal products, irrespective of the way in which the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (4 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: As the Deputy will be aware, Government approval was received on 19th November 2013 for the publication of the General Scheme of a new Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013 and to proceed with the drafting of the legislation based on this General Scheme. It is proposed that all tobacco products will have to comply with this legislation.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I inform the committee that Mr. Dermot Ryan has today been promoted to assistant Secretary General in the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: Was this building built in 1922? It is called the LH2000 annex. Is there a hint there? At the risk of being called combative-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I do not agree with the amendment. Section 11 of the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013 amends section 125A of the Stamp Duties Consolidation Act 1999 in respect of the revised rates of stamp duty that will apply to health insurance contracts entered into or renewed after 1 March 2014. The current legislation provides for the payment of the stamp duty levy by authorised insurers on a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputy for that. However, the reality is that it is a matter for the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance has met the insurance representatives and issued them guidance notes. The insurers were satisfied with them following that meeting.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I am sorry. That is what my Minister tells me and I will take his word for it. I cannot accept the amendment.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The Deputy is quite correct. I certainly do not want to see that. Next year will be very focused on renegotiating contracts with private hospitals and consultants in respect of the payments they receive, how they bill, the procedures they charge for and how they are paid. We shall have an opportunity to reduce greatly the cost of private health care in this country, which should result in...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: As the author of the greatest disaster the country has had, Deputy Billy Kelleher, would be best out of that.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I shall finish with this: The Commission considers that the approach above is coherent and in line with the state of the art. Considering the intrinsic variability present in such calculations the Commission accepts the proposal of the Irish authorities to consider that VHI is over compensated if its return on equity is above 12%. That is a direct quote. Is Deputy Kelleher suggesting for a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I did not interrupt the Deputy.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I have sat here and listened for the past 20 minutes to a Deputy who has gone around in circles. This came from an individual who was a Minister of State in a Government that destroyed this country and caused 250,000 people to lose their jobs, which might have something to do with the fact that 250,000 people have left the insurance market and that 250,000 more have medical cards.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: We are on the Bill.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: To hear from somebody who was in a position in government to do something about this for the past 14 years-----