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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: We can do that, certainly.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: We will do so on Report Stage. I will report back on the advice we receive from the Department of Justice and Equality and the Office of the Attorney General. With regard to Deputy Ó Caoláin's concern about speech and language therapy, this is a major problem and something which also applies to physiotherapists. They achieve 550 points in their leaving certificates and study for...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Technically, I am hidebound. We must reach agreement on a protected title for these people and a basic standard qualification. Then we can move this very quickly. I will do everything I can with regard to the Department of Health and the Department of Education and Skills and HETAC to get this expedited.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I want to reassure the Deputy and the committee on this. HETAC was not working on this issue at the time. It started working on it this year.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: The Deputy would have to ask Mr. Moloney. I do not know. This Government will be in office for at least three and a half more years, during which time members will have an opportunity to bring to me to task on this on a regular basis, which I welcome. Like others, I want to see this expedited. It is true that the wheels of government can be frustratingly slow at times. However, we are...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked, very reasonably, for an update. Two councils have been set up, namely, the social workers board and the radiographers board. I have just signed the regulations for speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and dieticians. There are now five councils. We are well advanced in the case of physiotherapy and hope to have the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I completely accept Deputy Dan Neville's bona fides and share his concerns. However, I have to face the reality that under Schedule 3 to the Act, the qualifications for each of the named groups are defined. There is no such definition of psychological therapist. Even the term "psychological therapist" cuts across psychiatry and psychology. There are legal implications for psychiatrists...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: Section 9 of the principal Act relates to membership of the health and social care professional council. This amending section is crucial to the continuing function of the council as it will allow the Minister to continue to appoint professional members to vacancies arising on the council until such time as all registration boards that are established under the legislation have held...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Consultancy Contracts (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: What can I say to the Deputy? He is forever saying that things are outrageous, scandalous and unacceptable and that this and that are a fantasy. I have to put it to him that his own health policies are utterly phantasmagorical because they do not amount to anything other than aspiration-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Consultancy Contracts (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I did not interrupt the Deputy and I would appreciate it if he would show me the same courtesy. The bottom line is that money following the patient was implemented last year on a limited and phased basis in our orthopaedic system and it saved us €6 million. That money will be considerably improved on and enhanced as we spread that out across the system. I am absolutely sure the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Consultancy Contracts (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: -----is the reality. As an elderly lady said to me many years ago, the truth is not fragile, it will not break. Real progress is being made. The Deputy chooses to join with others and talk of nothing but doom and gloom and say nothing will change except in some wonderful aspirational fantasy land Sinn Féin will create in health without regard to where the money will come from or to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Consultancy Contracts (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: In my response to Question No. 226 of 4 October 2012, I outlined how, in 2011 following an EU-wide competitive tendering process, I appointed Goodbody Stockbrokers and Matheson Ormsby Prentice Solicitors, MOPS, as financial and legal advisers to make recommendations on options to address the current imbalance in the private health insurance market. The work undertaken under this contract...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Consultancy Contracts (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: The Government is undertaking the most extensive reform of the health service since the foundation of the State, particularly in the context of new hospital groups, the small hospital framework and the methodology with which we remunerate hospitals and give them their budgets, that is, moving from a block budget where everything stops once the money is gone. That system further encourages...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I too acknowledge the presence of Deputy Paudie Coffey and Senator Cummins, who is in the Gallery. They are clearly very concerned.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: The Deputy had his moment to speak and in which to acknowledge his colleagues, if he so desired. I recognise that Deputies Conway, Ann Phelan and John Paul Phelan are present. There is concern in the south east owing to difficulties associated with the configuration there. There are associations elsewhere in the country that do not seem to create difficulties. In other words, as one...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: A key stepping stone towards the introduction of universal health insurance will be to develop independent not-for-profit hospital trusts in which all hospitals will function as part of integrated groups. The rationale behind the establishment of hospital groups and trusts is to support increased operational autonomy and accountability for hospital services in a way that will drive service...

National Children's Hospital: Motion (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I accept the Deputy is trying to expedite the process but the proposal may have the effect of delaying it if we must put in place a structure and introduce legislation. I take on board the sentiment expressed by Deputy Wallace. We are anticipating his suggestion in terms of using the existing planning structures to have an interlocutor, a planning authority, to deal with An Bord...

National Children's Hospital: Motion (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: In response to Deputy Eric Byrne, I have serious concern about the three maternity hospitals in Dublin. All of them are under pressure. Thankfully, there are more births in this country than ever before. Previously, there was an average of 60,000 births per year, but it is now 72,000 or more and the maternity hospitals in Dublin are creaking at the seams. They all require upgrading. It...

National Children's Hospital: Motion (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: I will be brief. I thank all Members for their contributions. We all want to see this hospital built as quickly as possible and we all want what is best for our children. I do not doubt any Member's bona fides in that regard. It is an important time for the children of Ireland. At a time of immense financial challenges for our country, the Government is determined to follow through on...

National Children's Hospital: Motion (8 Nov 2012)

James Reilly: In response to Deputy Maloney, the development board remains in place. The terms of office of many of the people on that board will expire on 5 December. I have stated publicly that I wish to engage with them to see what role they see for themselves in the future. I said on radio yesterday that some people have interpreted this in some sort of negative way but I see it as a very positive...