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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1562 to 1564, inclusive, together. Under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004, organisations may receive ancillary grants from the HSE to provide a service similar or ancillary to a service that the HSE may provide. It is for the Executive to determine the maximum amount of funding that it proposes to make available in any year and the level of service it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: The Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test is an initial test in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. While raised PSA levels can indicate prostate cancer, they can also arise in cases of certain benign prostate conditions, e.g. prostatitis. On average, two out of every three men who have a raised PSA level will not, on further examination, turn out to have prostate cancer. Also, there...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: As the Deputy will be aware, accountability for the management of services is a matter for the HSE to address within the ambit of its Vote (Vote 39). The level of health services to be delivered within the available funding for 2013 has been set out in the HSE National Service Plan for 2013, which I approved in January. The HSE will provide in the order of €1.5 billion in 2013 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts Tenders (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1576 and 1577 together. Your questions in relation to responsibility for HSE West public procurement and the publication date of the latest HSE West tender have been referred to the Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts Tenders (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1578 to 1580, inclusive, together. In relation to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters they have been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: The report of the National Audiology Review Group, published by the HSE in 2011, includes a recommendation that continued ring-fenced financial support be provided for the cochlear implant programme but at levels which allow for simultaneous bilateral implantation for children. It is estimated that there are approximately 200 children in Ireland today who may be suitable for a second...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the specific query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Metrics (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: Nursing and midwifery metrics are an agreed standard of measurement that provides an indication of the quality of nursing and midwifery care delivery. Nursing and midwifery metrics are operational in a range of sites nationally. In 2012 the HSE Office of Nursing and Midwifery Services led on an initiative to standardise nursing and midwifery metrics across 3 regions – North West,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: In 2010 the National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence was published. It aims to provide a framework for sustainable intervention to prevent and effectively respond to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence and is lead by Cosc which is the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence. The HSE subsequently published its own Policy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy Publication (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: Work on the drafting of a national plan is well underway with publication of it earmarked for the end of the year.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence Refuges (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: In 2010 the National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence was published. It aims to provide a framework for sustainable intervention to prevent and effectively respond to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence and is lead by Cosc which is the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence. The HSE subsequently published its own Policy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Recruitment (18 Sep 2013)

James Reilly: Agencies under the remit of this Department regularly use the Public Appointments Service (PAS) to fill vacancies. My Department requests the agencies under its remit to refer the filling of vacancies to the PAS in the first instance. It will continue to promote PAS on an ongoing basis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I thank the Chairman and his committee for all its support. It has done great work and shown how a committee can add to our deliberations on planning for our health services and policy. I thank everybody, even those who often have a view contrary to my own, for their contributions. I wish them all a very good summer. I wish the same to all the people in my Department, who have worked so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: When I tasked the PCRS with dealing with the delays in issuing medical cards, in which regard Mr. Paddy Burke and his team have done a great job, I pointed out that probity issues would arise and that we would find ourselves explaining the sort of issues to which Senator Colm Burke referred to the Committee of Public Accounts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I do not have the information Deputy Maloney requested but I will communicate with him in writing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: If I may, I will come back to some of the issues referred to by Mr. O'Brien, which are helpful. It is important to point out that non-consultant hospital doctors in their 20s and 30s often have families, so it is ludicrous to be offering them six-month contracts. That has to change and it will change. I am determined to correct this situation because it is undermining our ability to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Yes, I wish to mention Deputy Ó Caoláin as well. In fairness, there was a cross-party committee working on that matter. Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour were all represented on it. I acknowledge that Deputy Ó Caoláin was particularly associated with that committee. I cannot understand the comment on redundancy, however. How one can be refused...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The Senator should acknowledge that the Seanad is owned by the people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Could Deputy Dowds reiterate exactly what they said?