Results 8,501-8,520 of 32,583 for speaker:Richard Bruton
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I know the Minister is very conscious of the need to tackle waiting lists. It is worth mentioning that 7,000 people, including 5,000 elective patients, are treated in our hospitals every working day and are therefore having their pain and concern relieved. Of course there is always increasing pressure to provide more services. Technology is delivering new procedures. The Minister has...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I am aware of the considerable level of demand for the helpline. I understand that it has received 18,000 calls and that 10,500 women have asked to be called back. As the Deputy has recognised, a process has to be followed when checking records and data quality and assigning calls to the appropriate health professionals. To date, 7,103 women have been called back. Considerable progress is...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I understand that a monitoring framework for the convention is being put in place. It will include the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the National Disability Authority. The Act was designed to ensure they will meet the standard of independence. That is being guaranteed. I understand the optional protocol referred to by the Deputy is not being ratified at this time, but...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: A particular date for the completion of the first reporting cycle has not been provided to me.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I will revert to the Deputy on the matter.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I understand the Bill to which the Deputy refers is on Committee Stage. The Government is determined to push ahead with it but obviously it has to make its passage through the Oireachtas.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: The National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, will be providing 20,000 procedures this year, 5,000 of which will be cataract operations. One quarter of all of the work funded by the NTPF will be devoted to cataract surgery. The number of patients waiting more than nine months is 2,800 so the NTPF will be providing procedures for more than double the number of those waiting beyond the target...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: That is on top of the normal cataract service that is being provided by the HSE.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: This issue is being prioritised by the Government through the NTPF.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I am aware of the report by the British Parliament relating to the audit companies involved with Carrillion in the UK and obviously we will study that with interest. In terms of the individual schools, it remains the case that the Dutch Infrastructure Fund, DIF, which is the remaining partner in the consortium that is delivering these PPP projects has an obligation to hand over the schools...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I am not in a position to respond to the Deputy but will ask the relevant Minister to revert to him.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I will have to ask the Minister for Health to revert to the Deputy with information on the publication of those reports.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: The position is that as a result of the Louise O'Keeffe case and the subsequent ruling the Government set up an ex gratiapayment scheme to make payments to people who were in a similar category to her. People have applied to the scheme and some have been successful while others have been refused. I have appointed an independent assessor, Mr. Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill, who will...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I understand that the sole member, Marjorie Farrelly, SC, requested on 27 April an extension of 12 months to complete phase 1. The request for the extension was on the basis of the enormous volume of documentation disclosed to it from a wide range of public bodies, organisations and individuals and also the number of potential witnesses involved. The commission believes that a further 12...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: No, I have not got details of any requests for additional resources.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: It is my understanding that the Minister has made arrangements whereby if a medical consultant indicates that such medication would be appropriate that it will be made available. He has simplified the regime in that regard. He has not made a commitment to introduce new legislation that I know of.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: It is my understanding that in any case where there is a medical indication and it is endorsed by the patient's consulting doctor the treatment is made available.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I will get the Minister to confirm exactly the basis on which a person can get access but that is my understanding of the position.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: I thank Deputy Róisín Shortall for raising this issue because it is a matter of concern for her and the House. The 1,631 cases to which she referred were not part of the CervicalCheck system and did not come through its process. The women concerned were not included in the CervicalCheck audit of its client base. As the Deputy stated, they are now being included. Each case will...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Richard Bruton: The difficulty is that there is work to be done to identify the individual cases. The Deputy may apply a statistical calculation to determine that there is probably a certain number of cases. The difficulty is that CervicalCheck must go through the case histories to identify the individual cases and then move on to check the smear test result in each case to determine if there was a...