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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (12 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: The HSE National Ambulance Service (NAS) provides emergency pre-hospital care and emergency patient transport. When a 999 ambulance call is received, the caller is connected with the ambulance command and control centre for that area. The details of the call are recorded on a Computer Aided Dispatch System (CAD), with Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch (AMPDS). The AMPDS system is...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (12 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: In relation to the specific matter raised by the Deputy, as this is a service issue it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: A detailed breakdown of agency and overtime useage in a particular service area is a matter for the Health Service Executive, and as such, the Deputy's enquiry has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (12 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (12 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: The Minister set up a Special Action Group on Obesity to examine and progress a number of issues to address the problem of obesity and its health implications. The Group is concentrating on a range of measures including actions such as: calorie posting in restaurants, nutritional labelling, marketing of food and drink to children, the supply of healthy food products in vending machines, the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants' Remuneration (12 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 242 and 243 together. Ongoing reform and increased efficiency in service delivery is essential. It is imperative that consultants, given their roles within the health system, lead this process. The measures agreed between health service management and the consultant representative bodies at the Labour Relations Commission in September will allow for very...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Allowances (12 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Remuneration (12 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: One staff member, a Higher Executive Officer in the Capital EU, International and Research Policy Unit, was awarded Assistant Principal Officer duties allowance. Sanction was sought 17 May 2012 and was approved 24 May 2012 in line with Government Decision S/180/20/10/1456 of 16 December 2011 in relation to Ireland's Presidency of the EU, after which time the arrangement will cease.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012) James Reilly: I will answer the Deputy's questions quickly. The first question about medical card changes relates to next year and they will be in the service plan. They have nothing to do with this Supplementary Estimate. I answered the second question about home help hours as clearly as possible. The budget will be the same next year as it was at the beginning of this year and, therefore, the budget...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012) James Reilly: The greater deficit in the west is due to the deficits in Galway and Limerick hospitals, some of which they have carried for some time. No other Department has taken as much money out as we have.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012) James Reilly: No Department, other than possibly the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, has dropped as many staff as we have or completed as much reform as we have in terms of the special delivery unit, a reduction of 25% in trolley numbers and a 92% reduction in those waiting 12 months or longer for an appointment, an 86% reduction in those waiting nine months or longer, a 36%...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012) James Reilly: If the Deputy keeps focusing on inputs, the number of doctors and nurses and on money, he will get nowhere because that was what was done for the previous ten years. We are focusing on outcomes for patients, in particular, the number treated and how quickly, and that is what will give us the health service we all want: one in which we can feel safe and of which those who work in it can feel...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012) James Reilly: I can answer that straight away. That is for next year. It is not for this Estimate.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012) James Reilly: Is it the old adage of "Up the west and ... the rest."? On a serious note, I will deal with the questions as they were posed. Deputy Kelleher keeps alluding to a budget deficit of €360 million but I have pointed out that from within our own resources, the budget deficit is at €245 million. That is what is being sought. The Deputy mentioned the previous chief executive of the...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012) James Reilly: I thank the Chairman for his warm welcome to my officials and me. Let me extend seasons greeting to everybody, as I doubt we will see each other again before Christmas.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary) (11 Dec 2012) James Reilly: Never say "never" and always avoid "always". I thank the select sub-committee for giving me the opportunity to bring before it this Supplementary Estimate for Vote 39. The total additional funding being sought for the HSE is €360 million. I am allocating a once-off extra Exchequer receipt of €45 million from the Medical Defence Union, MDU and savings of €70 million,...
- Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: I thank Senators for their support for the Bill and for their contributions and the questions raised. Senator MacSharry raised the issue of fitness to practise committees under section 6. We need at least two committees to be in place and these have not commenced yet because the three new registers and the social work register have only recently been added. These committees will commence...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: The Deputy asked a question and received an answer he did not like.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: It is the hypocrisy that is the issue.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
James Reilly: Why not?