Results 9,781-9,800 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: As the Deputy's question relates to a service matter, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The Government is committed to the provision and development of services for children with a disability including those with autism having regard to the resources available. A range of community and other services are provided for children with a disability including those with autism by or on behalf of the HSE. Significantly the HSE is currently engaged in a reconfiguration of existing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: Smoking Cessation Services within the Health Service Executive offer a wide variety of services in different areas. Specialist Smoking Cessation Counsellors are trained to deliver these services on full time, part time and sessional basis nationally. Health Promotion Departments within the HSE also offer an extensive programme of training that includes developing skills for health care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 690 and 728 together. International studies and scientific assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to HPV is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. Routine vaccination is not recommended for boys. According to research carried out by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the burden of disease...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Service Reform Plan Update (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The Public Service Reform document on 17th November 2011 identified three agencies under the aegis of this Department to be rationalised, amalgamated or abolished in 2012. The National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery was dissolved on the 31st December, 2011. In relation to the Opticians Board, a Working Group was established in 2010 to provide legislatively...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: With regard to specific complaints in relation to experiences of individuals in our hospitals, there is a formal complaints policy, details of which are on the HSE website, at www.hse.ie/eng/services/ysys/Complaint. In addition, advice and instructions for making complaints about a service or an individual may be found at www.healthcomplaints.ie. In accordance with this procedure, a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The particular issue raised by the Deputy is a service matter for the Health Service Executive. Accordingly I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 710 and 717 together. There is ongoing cooperation between my Department and the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland. In this regard, one service that is actively being progressed at present is paediatric congenital cardiac surgery. There have been a number of meetings and teleconferences between the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: NIAC is a committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland comprising of experts in a number of specialties including infectious diseases, paediatrics and public health. The committee's recommendations are informed by public health advice, international best practice and by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE). Varicella vaccination is currently recommended by the NIAC for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The Government is committed to ensuring a high-quality radiotherapy service for the entire population of Ireland, including close collaboration with Northern Ireland, for services in the North West. I have committed once-off capital funding of around one third of the cost (up to a ceiling of €19 million) for the development of new radiotherapy facilities (3 linear accelerators) at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The Government decided on 6 November 2012 that the new children’s hospital should be co-located with St James’s Hospital on its campus. e new hospital, when ready, will bring together the three existing Dublin paediatric hospitals (Our Lady’s Hospital Crumlin, Children’s University Hospital Temple Street and the National Children’s Hospital, part of Tallaght...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: Priorities for cross-Border co-operation in the field of health include those being progressed through the structures of the North South Ministerial Council and also through ongoing engagement at official level. Collaboration is taking place on a wide range of health and social care issues including, for example, radiotherapy services, paediatric congenital cardiac services, health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: In July 2011 I announced changes to the remit of the NTPF, namely its role would be changed to support the mission of the Special Delivery Unit (SDU). The NTPF is now fully aligned with the SDU and is targeting waiting lists strategically and incentivising hospitals to manage their waiting times proactively. The NTPF capability is a core part of the SDU's performance-improvement role in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Medical Organisation (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) is an independent body and is not under any obligation to inform the Department of Health of the setting up of a company such as the one referred to. My Department has no record of any correspondence received from the IMO on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The management of in-patient and day-case 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). Regarding the specific query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: On the specific query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply. Should the patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Agency Staff Expenditure (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: As the use of agency staff is a matter for the HSE in the first instance, the Deputy's enquiry has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The first point of the general staff nurse scale for nurses employed after 1 January 2011 is €27,211. However, the cost of hiring a nurse full time would be greater than this when employers' PRSI and premium payments are factored in. At 31 December 2012 there were 34,637 WTEs employed in the nursing staff category in the health service. This figure includes categories such as public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Building on work already undertaken by the HSE, the NTPF has now taken over the reporting of outpatient waiting time data. The collation and analysis of outpatient waiting time data in a standardised format will reveal the distribution of long waiters across all hospitals. In the first instance, this will allow...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: The particular issue raised by the Deputy is a service matter for the Health Service Executive. Accordingly I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.