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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: The national guidelines on stroke care as outlined in Changing Cardiovascular Health: National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010 –2019 (published in 2010) recommend that all hospitals providing care for acute stroke patients must make available immediate access to an acute stroke unit. An acute stroke unit consists of a discrete area of a hospital that exclusively or principally takes...

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (7 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: The 2001 Tobacco Products Directive concerns the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products in the EU. Last December, following extensive consultation with stakeholders, including a public consultation, the Commission published a proposal for a new EU Tobacco Products Directive, the ultimate purpose of which is to reduce the numbers of people smoking. The proposal will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: North-South Implementation Bodies (7 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: A North/South Alcohol Forum has been established at the request of my Department and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety Northern Ireland. The aim of the forum is to contribute to reducing alcohol related harm on the island of Ireland. A scoping meeting was held last October to discuss the establishment of the North/South Alcohol Forum and terms of reference were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Both myself and officials from my Department, the Health Service Executive and the Department of Education and Skills have met with the relevant advocacy group on a number of occasions, to address their concerns and to outline the services available. My priority is to ensure that children/adolescents affected by narcolepsy with symptom onset post pandemic vaccination are provided with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (7 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Six retired Public Servants (3.86 wholetime equivalents) are currently employed in my Department. Four were re-engaged on a temporary basis on work related to our Presidency of the EU. Two others are Ministerial appointees (Special Adviser and Civilian Driver) who were previously employed elsewhere in the Public Service. With regard to the Health Service Executive and the Non-Commercial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: We did receive legal advice. We have acknowledged that legally the ombudsman is correct in her assertions in terms of this particular scheme. I acknowledge that the ombudsman has an important job to do and I do not seek to undermine that job in any way. I believe the more advocates we have for vulnerable people in our society the better. On the equality legislation and the international...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I thank the Chairman and the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I thank Deputy Mulherin for her contribution. The issue of medical appointments was raised. It may come as a surprise to members of the committee that I am considered to be a Dublin Deputy. I have a large rural hinterland whose inhabitants find it extremely difficult to make their way to the hospital and would prefer Beaumont. There is no direct public transport. If one can get to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I think the committee is aware of my statement on the money spent in the court on litigation and legal fees. It should more rightly be spent on those who need the services. I concur completely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: There is no way anybody in the Government, including myself, Deputy Kathleen Lynch and Deputy Alex White, thinks it is okay to be in breach of the law. Part of what we hope might arise from today is that perhaps with the fresh eyes Deputy Peter Mathews mentioned we will get additional insight into how we can resolve this. I am aware that farmers go through a tough time and that things are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: What questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I will answer the last question before letting the Secretary General respond. Clearly, the views of individual Ministers as expressed in small discussions I had with different people about this are not the view of the Government. The view of the Government is the view expressed by the Cabinet and I am not at liberty to discuss what happens in Cabinet, except after it has happened and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I thank the Deputies for their comments and reiterate what my Minister of State has said. We know that the scheme cannot continue in its current form and that we must find a solution. She also said that if the solution were easy, we would have found it some time back. As Deputy Boyd Barrett has said, the problem was first uncovered in 2008 and 2009. It has not been ignored by us. We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I shall let the Secretary General respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: I thank the Chairman and the committee for the opportunity to appear before them and to answer their questions in regard to the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant. I propose to make some opening remarks on the complex issues which the Ombudsman previously highlighted to the committee and the considerable efforts being made to address these issues. The Minister of State,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Expenditure (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: In general, people with outpatient and hospital appointments are expected to make their own travel arrangements, using private or scheduled public transport. The exceptions are for dialysis, cancer (radiotherapy and chemotherapy) and post-operative transplant patients, where transport may be provided. In these cases, the patient's appointment or treatment should be directly related to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Until recently, there was no standardised collection of outpatient waiting list data, which meant that the scale of the issue was unmeasured and consequently no special action was taken to address it. This Government is changing that. The Special Delivery Unit is now dealing with the issue of outpatient waiting lists on my instruction, with the assistance of the NTPF. Work has commenced on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Funding (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Demographic pressures will unavoidably affect the provision of health services in 2013. The population of Ireland has grown very rapidly in recent years, and the 2011 Census confirms a continuation of this trend, though at a more moderate pace. Furthermore, the distribution of the population across age groups is also changing with numbers in the older age groups growing in absolute terms but...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: Eleven sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are currently legally notifiable in Ireland: ano-genital warts, chancroid, Chlamydia trachomatis, genital herpes simplex, gonorrhoea, granuloma inguinale, infectious hepatitis B, lymphogranuloma venereum, non-specific urethritis, syphilis and trichomoniasis. Aggregate data on the number of notified STIs from Departments of Public Health in each...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Feb 2013)

James Reilly: The management of inpatient and daycase waiting lists for patients awaiting public health care is based on the principle that after urgent and cancer patients are treated, then clinically assessed routine patients should be seen in chronological order (i.e. longest waiter first). Should the patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment,...