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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Thirteen, with one lead. Deputy McLellan’s questions on what is the formula are very salient. We need to publish them so that we have transparency. This will be part of our communications drive to reassure people they have been treated fairly. As I said this morning at the conference, the informed and empowered patient is the safe patient. Similarly, informed clients can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I wish to make a comment on this issue, because I attended that conference this morning and wish to reiterate forcefully here a point I made there. In the past, people have considered patient safety to be a matter for clinicians solely, and members will have heard people stating on radio that administrators would not understand that issue or that it would not be fair. It is a core duty and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: No, I will dispute that. There are people in hospital whose acute phase of treatment is over and who do not get access in the way that they could and should to rehabilitative care, for example, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy. We want to ensure that happens. The end result may be that they still need long-term care, but we can avoid it in many cases,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I am well aware of the figures. The last issue the Deputy mentioned was that of bilateral cochlear implants. I have made this one of my priorities, but we face an extraordinary challenge next year, in that we must save €660 million in the health service after having already saved €3 billion, 10% of our staff having left, an 8% increase in the population, a 2% increase in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I will qualify that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I accept that. This issue was discussed last night and a suggestion of a tiered approach was made. In many cases, all we are doing is writing to ensure that someone is still alive or in the country. The very act of returning the letter is the end of the matter. It is a "Yes, I am here, thank you very much".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: After that, we can investigate issues of changing circumstances. That should require a different type of approach further down the line. I will discuss that with the HSE. I am sure the Minister of State, Deputy White, will as well. Mention was made of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act. It will be ready by the year end in terms of implementability. Dr. Philip Crowley might say...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I have always maintained that the era of the service serving itself rather than the patient is over. I will turn over to Mr. Tony O'Brien. My apologies - I meant the Minister of State, Deputy White.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I stated that Mr. Tony O'Brien would answer that question for the Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I need to speak up, in that I must partake in the debate on that motion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I am time-limited.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I will address the issues raised by Deputy Kelleher first and in answering the questions raised I will have to defer to some of the team present. The Deputy mentioned the very tragic case of Tania McCabe and the lessons that do not seem to have learned by the rest of the system. Earlier today I was at a national clinical excellence council to discuss the bringing in of new standards - not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Yes. The report produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggested that somewhere between €60 million and €200 million could be saved through probity in the GMS, or primary care reimbursement service, as it is now known. That report was published 18 months ago, so obviously there has been a lot of action since then. None the less, a figure of €113 million in savings to be...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Deputy Martin would not know anything about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I did warn the committee at the outset that my statement would take a little longer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: That is the direction of travel as we seek to achieve universal health insurance with free access to GP care for everybody in the community so that people go to their doctors early and have their chronic illnesses monitored and more prevention can take place and fewer people will end up in hospitals, which is the most expensive end of the health service. This is a case of investing now for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I am joined by the Secretary General of my Department, officials from the HSE and my fellow Ministers, Ministers of State, Deputies Alex White and Kathleen Lynch. The committee will be aware there is a time conflict here with the Private Members' business motion in the Dáil. The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, will have to leave at 12.15 p.m. to take that motion. Perhaps...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Proposals are currently being finalised on foot of the recommendations in the Steering Group Report on a National Substance Misuse Strategy 2012. These proposals cover all of the areas mentioned in the report, including measures on access and availability of alcohol; controls on alcohol advertising and sponsorship; labelling of alcohol products, and legislation on minimum unit pricing. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 195 and 196 together. I am determined that the recommendations of the HSE inquiry into the death of Tania McCabe and her infant son Zach at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in 2007, and the recently published HIQA Report of the care and treatment provided to Ms. Halappanavar, will be fully implemented and that any actions required will be implemented across...