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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: These amendments deal with cases in which a pregnancy results from rape or incest and are an attempt to legislate for lawful termination of pregnancy in such cases. I cannot accept them. The main purpose of the Bill is to restate the general prohibition on abortion in Ireland while regulating access to lawful termination of pregnancy in accordance with the X case judgment and the judgment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: My Department is in regular contact with the EU Commission in relation to the authorisation of the VHI and related State Aid issues. The Government is taking all the necessary steps to bring the VHI to the point of authorisation and the Department of Health is working closely with the VHI and the Central Bank of Ireland. The Central Bank will decide on the VHI's capital requirements and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sunbed Usage (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 217 and 244 together. The apparent contradiction between the increase in skin cancers over the period from 1994 to 2010 on the one hand and the reduction in sunbed use indicated by the Irish Cancer Society's (ICS) research on the other hand can most probably be explained by the long latency period often associated with skin cancers - which can take many...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the SDU, together with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) and the HSE, has developed the outpatient waiting list minimum dataset. This allows data to be submitted to the NTPF from hospitals on a weekly basis and, for the first time, outpatient data is available on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 221 to 223, inclusive, together. In relation to the particular queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service issues, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in these matters.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Issues (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: As the issue raised is an matter for the HSE, I have referred the Deputy's question to the Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the SDU, together with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) and the HSE, has developed the outpatient waiting list minimum dataset. This allows data to be submitted to the NTPF from hospitals on a weekly basis and, for the first time, outpatient data is available on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the SDU, together with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) and the HSE, has developed the outpatient waiting list minimum dataset. This allows data to be submitted to the NTPF from hospitals on a weekly basis and, for the first time, outpatient data is available on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jul 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: Hospital Admissions (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The HSE National Clinical Care Programmes provide a national, strategic and co-ordinated approach to a wide range of clinical services. The programmes have three main objectives - to improve the quality of care, to improve access and to improve cost/value, effectiveness. The primary role is the development of models of care, guidelines and clinical pathways. In addition areas for process...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: In July 2011 I established the Special Delivery Unit as set out in the Programme for Government with the aim of unblocking access to acute hospital services by improving the flow of patients through the system. A maximum wait time of 12 months for adults awaiting an inpatient or daycase procedure was set in 2011. The maximum wait time target was reduced to nine months in 2012 and this year...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: It is important for a health system and the people it serves that it collects, analyses and interprets high quality information about is performance against its objectives, including quality and safety objectives. This information can be used to inform decisions about the planning, design and delivery of services, to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and safety of services and to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: My Department and the Health Service Executive (HSE) are extremely concerned in relation to the findings of the Lancet Study of mortality after surgery in Europe. While it has been acknowledged that there may be some methodological explanation for the results obtained, e.g. private hospitals not included and only 17 public hospitals participated, I can assure the Deputy that the findings are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cover (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The Government is embarking on a major reform programme for the health system, the aim of which is to deliver a single-tier health service, supported by universal health insurance (UHI), where access is based on need, not on income. Under UHI, everyone will be insured and will have equal access to a standard package of primary and acute hospital services, including acute mental health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Management of healthcare property estate is a service issue. Therefore, your question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Section 14(1) (f) of the Pharmacy Act 2007 provides that one of the requirements for registration as a pharmacist is that the person is not an undischarged bankrupt. Some technical amendments have been sought to the Pharmacy Act 2007 including an amendment to section 14(1) (f) to remove the restriction on a person who is an undischarged bankrupt from being registered in the Register of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility to determine the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to recruit, manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (11 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the particular query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service issue, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Deputy Durkan was supportive. Deputy Shortall made points that were well dealt with by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter and the Minister of State, Deputy White. Deputy Bannon asked about markers. There are no biochemical markers in respect of the mental health issue of suicide and risk thereof. There are no control trials per se. Does the name reflect the reality...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: This is a substantive part of the Bill, about which many people have concerns. I acknowledge it is particularly difficult for some Members. The Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, talked about the lack of a treatment plan or a pathway of care, yet one psychiatrist I can quote described the Bill as creating this pathway of care. She mentioned the issue of retired Supreme Court judge, Mr....